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A few weeks ago, Michele Campeau faced what seemed like an impossible decision: move her mom from a hospital bed to a long-term care home the family hated or pay $400 a day to remain at the health-care facility. Campeau chose neither – the family has been racking up a …
Read More »Ontario hospitals, LTC homes spent nearly $1B on agency staff last year
Hospitals and long-term care homes spent nearly $1 billion last year to fill shifts with nurses and personal support workers from private staffing agencies, a Ministry of Health document estimates. A November 2023 staffing agency update obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom-of-information request shows that agency use increased …
Read More »Ontario extends program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid ER closures
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 22, 2024 6:07 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months. The province established what’s now known as the Temporary Locum …
Read More »Ontario patient ombudsman sees 33 per cent surge in complaints: report
TORONTO — Ontario’s patient ombudsman says his office has seen a 33 per cent increase in complaints, and noted a “troubling” trend in problems accessing primary care. Craig Thompson, the province’s patient ombudsman, released his office’s annual report Wednesday with its findings. His office received 4,388 complaints over the 2022-23 …
Read More »Some Ontario hospitals reinstating masking requirements
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 8, 2023 1:01 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some eastern Ontario hospitals are bringing back mask requirements in patient-care areas as the respiratory virus season approaches. Kingston Health Sciences Centre says on its website that masking is now mandatory …
Read More »Ontario hospital sounds alarm as aging building faces population boom
The health of Ontario’s healthcare system is not just dependent on doctors, nurses, and other frontline staff but the environment they work in — including the physical buildings. Something as simple as improving Wi-Fi access or adding more electrical outlets is a struggle at one southwestern Ontario hospital, where the …
Read More »‘Huge wake-up call’: Quarter of Ontario hospitals are in poor condition, docs reveal
Ontario’s network of publicly owned hospitals is in significant need of investment and repair, internal government documents reveal, with more than a quarter of all hospitals in the province listed as being in poor condition. Global News can also reveal that five health-care buildings across Ontario also have a repair …
Read More »Ontario adds $44M to fund aimed at reducing ER wait times at hospitals
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 20, 2023 1:05 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size OTTAWA — Ontario is adding $44 million to a fund for hospitals to help reduce ER wait times and allowing more hospitals to qualify. The new funding is on top of …
Read More »Pediatric drug shortage led to dosing errors in Ontario children, research shows
TORONTO — The shortage of pediatric medication in Canada last year led to a spike of dosing errors in children in Ontario, new research shows. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, examined the effect of the shortage of children’s ibuprofen and acetaminophen, which forced parents …
Read More »No fines issued by hospitals under Ontario’s new long-term care law: province, OHA
No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing, the province and its hospitals say. But families and advocates …
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