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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 …

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 …

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is defending a move to reduce the frequency of eye exams for healthy seniors, saying Monday that changes to funding for optometry services involve “fine tuning” the coverage. Jones announced Friday that the government had reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increases some payments …

TORONTO — Ontario tabled legislation Tuesday to allow more private clinics to offer certain publicly funded surgeries and procedures, which the health minister said comes with several patient safeguards, although the government doesn’t yet know who will inspect those facilities. Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the legislation will enable the …

As Ontario battled a triple-threat of respiratory illnesses in the fall of 2022, placing overwhelming strain on hospitals province-wide, the Ford government commissioned a public opinion poll on whether or not the health care system was in a state of crisis. The polling, conducted for the Ontario government in late-October …

As Ontario’s health-care crisis intensified, the province was asked to double down on a policy created more than a decade ago to reduce how long ambulances are stuck in emergency rooms. In 2008, the then-Liberal government began employing nurses at Ontario hospitals to help unload ambulances and get paramedics back …

Ontario is putting $4.75 million toward expanding a virtual walk-in counselling program for children and youth to access mental health services. Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the One Stop Talk program is a way to offer modern, convenient options for youth in ways in which they are used to communicating. …

Ontario doubled the number of so-called “long-waiters” during the pandemic — patients whose surgeries have been delayed longer than their maximum clinical guidelines — according to figures obtained by Global News, leading to concerns about poorer medical outcomes. According to government documents, almost half of the patients on Ontario’s surgical …

Across Ontario, as Sylvia Jones was being sworn in as minister of health, the province was pockmarked with emergency room closures and scaled-back operations as a staffing crisis took hold of the health-care system. The Perth and Smith District Falls Hospital was forced to close its ER for almost a …

As the Ford government strategized ways to cut down on the COVID-19 surgical backlog, provincial health officials set aside a small pot of public funding for private hospitals and independent heath facilities, according to documents obtained by Global News. A Ministry of Health presentation on the province’s surgical and diagnostic …