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'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


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


ICU Care Spikes To 17-Month High in Waterloo Region
Two more seniors die of COVID-19 as ICU care spikes to 17-month high in Waterloo Region Ten hospital patients who need intensive care is...

Jeff Outhit
Jan 28, 2024


Doc closing practice over 'systemic' issues amid family medicine 'crisis'
'I remain disappointed at the lack of serious reforms to improve primary care, despite the government rhetoric,' says doctor of hurdles...

Andrew Philips
Jan 26, 2024


Overcrowding kills… and that’s what we are starting to see
~ Dr. Trevor Jain, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians As Canada’s health systems strain, more private care would mark...

David Baxter
Jan 22, 2024


Hurry up and wait.
'This is not inevitable:' Offload delays continue to plague hospital Provincial NDP leader and the Waterloo Region Health Coalition met...

Matt Betts
Jan 20, 2024


Can you remember the last time health care wasn’t in crisis?
OPINION: I can't remember the last time the system was functioning well. Who knows how bad it'll have to get before somebody does...

Matt Gurney
Jan 20, 2024


We might as well be talking to a wall
Our health appears to be solely about us, yet the real focus should be on politicians and their influence on shaping public policy, Nolak...

Nolak P. Khopa
Dec 4, 2023


Toronto's Vaccine Rollout at Risk: 4 Clinics on the Chopping Block
Posted November 28, 2023 6:33 pm. Last Updated November 28, 2023 6:46 pm. It’s been more than two years since the City of Toronto widely...

Nick Westoll
Dec 4, 2023


Lost and Found: Training First Responders on Dementia Patients Who Wander
Waterloo researcher educating first responders on people with dementia who go missing A University of Waterloo research group has created...

Cheyenne Bholla
Nov 12, 2023
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