Most Recent Tracking Report Shows that Ministry of Long-Term Care & Public Health Ontario Have Discontinued Public Reporting of Vital COVID-19 Data, Outbreaks in Health Settings Down but Death Rate Continues to Rise
June 23, 2020 17:08 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, June 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition released its most recent two-week report tracking the spread of COVID-19 among patients, residents...
Health Coalition Plans Protests Across Ontario As Ford Government Pushes Through New Laws to Privatize Home & Community Care, Stifle Class Action Suits, In Midst of Pandemic & Fails to Take Action on Emergency Staffing Crisis in Long-Term Care
June 22, 2020 13:25 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, June 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tragically, over the last two weeks there have been several well-publicized deaths of residents in long-term care as a result of malnutrition and...
“It is a New Low” Behaviour of Government MPPs in Home Care Legislation Public Hearings Unprecedented and Unacceptable: Health Coalition
June 17, 2020 14:05 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition is making a formal complaint today regarding the behaviour of three government MPPs in the public hearing into Bill 175 the...
Ford Government’s New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn
June 15, 2020 14:20 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, June 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition released its submission on Bill 175, the Ford government’s new home care law which guts existing home and community care...
Death Toll Among Patients, Residents and Staff in Health Care Settings up 18.4% in 2 weeks: OHC Tracking Numbers Still Growing But More Slowly
June 05, 2020 17:24 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, June 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Since the week of March 12, the Ontario Health Coalition has been tracking all people who have been infected with COVID-19 in...
Fact Check & Briefing Note on Inspections in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes
June 01, 2020 17:02 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, June 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition, which has advocated for more than two decades for annual unannounced full resident quality inspections of all long-term care...
Open Letter to Premier Doug Ford
May 28, 2020 18:08 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, May 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dear Premier Ford, While we are pleased that your government has committed to independence, non-partisanship and...
Military Report on Conditions in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes: “Beyond Frustrated” Health Coalition Calls on Ford Government to Implement Repeated Recommendations to Improve Access to PPE, Workplace Safety and Infection Control
May 26, 2020 15:16 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, May 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition, which has released major reports annually on the state of long-term care in Ontario in recent years, expressed its frustration...
Staff & Patients Infected by COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Almost Doubled, Death Toll increased by 333.7% in 2 weeks: Outbreaks are Not Under Control
May 12, 2020 13:35 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, May 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- By every measure COVID-19 outbreaks in health and congregate care settings, including hospitals, long-term care, retirement homes, public health units and...
COVID-19 numbers still escalating in a “devastating” way in Ontario’s long-term care homes: Health Coalition calls a Day of Action to press Ford government for more concrete measures to stop the spread and stabilize the sector
April 30, 2020 16:58 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, April 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the Ontario Health Coalition is completing the gargantuan task of updating its tracking of the spread of COVID-19 in health care settings that now...