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Accountability in long-term care
Without concerted action, problems in long-term care will continue to fester, and indeed grow with Canada’s aging population. Thursday,...

Michael Wolfson
Mar 8, 2024


Pay-for-plasma clinic to open in Cambridge in 2025
A private clinic paying people to donate their blood plasma is expected to open in Cambridge late this year or in 2025. Wednesday, March...

Catherine Thompson
Mar 6, 2024


Kitchener, Ont. family meets with health minister after 19-hour wait for emergency surgery
A month after Ontario's health minister said she’d talk with the Kitchener family who waited 19 hours for an emergency appendectomy...

Spencer Turcotte
Mar 4, 2024


Are these private-pay health care clinics legal? The minister of health won't say
Some new clinics are taking advantage of the family doctor shortage to charge patients February 29, 2024 A new private medical clinic in...

Jessica Smith Cross
Feb 29, 2024


A dire nursing shortage, private-sector windfall profits all part of Ford’s disastrous approach to Ontario health care
Bill 124 contributed to a mass exodus of front-line nurses, creating of a unique opportunity for private-nurse-hiring agencies to realize...

Les Whittington
Feb 29, 2024


Massive new survey finds widespread frustration with access to primary health care
OurCare Initiative finds primary care is the top concern as 6 million people go without a family doctor CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2024 A...

John Paul Tasker
Feb 29, 2024


Can we afford to keep ignoring the health of unpaid caregivers?
Feb 27, 2024 Unpaid caregivers are the backbone of the Canadian health-care system, providing personal, physical, social and financial...

Monica Parry
Feb 28, 2024


New Doug Ford Super Bowl Ad Just Dropped!!!
Feb 23, 2024 This is Ontario's 2024 Super Bowl ad (cost: $6.5 million) with a dubbed voice-over that paints a much more realistic picture...

TDot Resident @TDotResident
Feb 25, 2024


Our public hospitals are on their knees: Jim Stewart
ORs being used for storage as province funds private clinics: health group The Waterloo Region Health Coalition says public hospitals are...

Catherine Thompson
Feb 22, 2024


Robbing from the public to build the private
New OHC report sheds light on plight of Ontario hospitals A scathing new report from the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) is criticizing...

Ashley Hyshka
Feb 21, 2024


New MRI for St. Mary's hospital!
By Waterloo Region Record Friday, February 16, 2024 A new MRI is lifted into St. Mary's hospital in Kitchener on Friday. An exterior wall...

Waterloo Region Record
Feb 18, 2024


'Beyond crisis levels': Why Ontario doctors are fleeing family medicine
The Ontario Medical Association is sounding the alarm about the increasing number of family physicians leaving practice. By Megan Ogilvie...

Megan Ogilvie
Feb 17, 2024


One in four Ontario residents could be without a family doctor by 2026
Many family doctors poised to leave practices if no action from government, says Ontario Medical Association. Published Feb 15, 2024 A...

Elizabeth Payne
Feb 15, 2024


An Ontario Town Was Promised Long-Term Care Beds by Doug Ford 6 Years Ago - It’s Still Waiting
Posted February 9, 2024 Eighty-five-year-old Dianna Ayotte says she doesn’t think she’ll still be around when Sioux Lookout, Ont., is...

Isaac Callan
Feb 15, 2024


Can Community Paramedicine Help Alleviate the Strain on Health-Care Systems?
Patients turn to emergency services because they cannot get care elsewhere. About one-fifth of Canada’s population is 65 years or older....

Christian Lopez
Feb 15, 2024


Nurse Practitioners not covered by OHIP
Ontario clinic’s direct billing highlights grey area around nurse practitioners By Don Mitchell Global News Posted February 13, 2024 A...

Don Mitchell
Feb 14, 2024


Ontario health care: Could my family doctor 'de-roster' me if I go to a walk-in or use Maple?
Some patients are worried that visiting a walk-in clinic or using virtual care services could impact ties to their family doctor Fri,...

Elianna Lev
Feb 12, 2024


On health care, Ford has failed
Waterloo Region Record Letters To The Editor Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Governments have duties, obligations and accountability to their...

Joseph Amatruda
Feb 12, 2024


Ensuring Accountability: The Ontario Nurses' Association Calls for Investment in Public Care
TORONTO, ON, February 9, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) welcomes the commitment of the federal government to provide funding in a new health-care agreement for this province, and adds that ONA has no faith that the Ford government will direct the funds to where they are most needed – to invest in the public system, not the for-profit, private corporations. "Nurses welcome new federal funding for health care in Ontario, which is desperately needed in our public-h

Ontario Nurses' Association
Feb 11, 2024


Cash for health care at new Kitchener clinic
Charging for health care: Nurse practitioners bill for service at new Kitchener clinic Phlox Health on Manitou Drive offers many of the...

Catherine Thompson
Feb 10, 2024
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