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Ontario Health Coalition
4 days ago1 min read
Health Coalition shocked and disappointed with court rulings in Bill 7 Charter Challenge and Orchard Villa case; vows to continue the fight to protect the rights of the elderly
March 13, 2025 Toronto – In a press conference this morning, the Ontario Health Coalition responded to court rulings in two cases...
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Kristen Calis
Feb 122 min read
Seniors continue to ask how Pickering’s Orchard Villa gets to grow, despite harrowing COVID-19 outbreak
Group receives heavily redacted info Tuesday, February 11, 2025 By Kristen Calis Pickering News Advertiser The group Seniors for Social...
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Patricia Spindel
Jan 201 min read
The Health X Files: How Largely Secret Licensing and Funding Arrangements in Long-Term Care Cost the Public Billions with Little Public Accountability
Editorial January 20, 2025 The public has, for over forty years, been barraged with horror stories in long-term care institutions. But...
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Joseph Amatruda
Jan 165 min read
Who will be the voice for those vulnerable seniors that suffered and died in Care Homes in dire circumstances during the Covid 19 pandemic?
The military was deployed to nursing homes in Ontario and Quebec to reinforce workers overwhelmed by the illness, unable to keep up with...
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Kenyon Wallace
Dec 13, 20241 min read
‘Patients at risk.’ Doctors raise alarm over new long-term-care role for nurse practitioners
Proposed change has been a “long-time coming,” says Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario CEO Doris Grinspun. “Let’s move on and do...
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Ontario Health Coalition
Dec 9, 20241 min read
No Room at the Inn: Hospital discharges, what rights do patients & their substitute decision-makers have?
Join our upcoming webinar "No Room at the Inn: Hospital discharges, what rights do patients & their substitute decision-makers have?" as...
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Allison Jones
Nov 25, 20241 min read
Ontario missed interim target for providing hands-on care to long-term care residents
Next goal is 4 hours per day of direct care by end of March 2025 Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 25, 2024 9:31 AM EST...
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Seniors for Social Action (Ontario)
Nov 24, 20241 min read
No due process. No rights and no humanity.
Important Research and Advocacy Report Calling For Criminal Investigations In Long-Term Care Institutions November 4, 2024 Seniors for...
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Ontario Health Coalition
Nov 3, 20241 min read
Stand up for seniors who suffered and died in for-profit LTC
This GoFundMe is for our court challenge to the Ford government's decision to reward Orchard Villa with a planned new 30-year license and...
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Kenyon Wallace
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Workers at one of Toronto’s largest nursing homes speak out on ‘chronic’ staffing shortages and ‘toxic’ work environments
The City of Toronto says it “does not tolerate discrimination or harassment” at any of its long-term-care homes. Oct. 22, 2024 Workers...
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Ontario Advocacy Consortium
Jul 15, 20242 min read
Nursing Home Closures in Toronto
“They aren’t nursing ‘homes’, they are institutions. They aren’t long-term ‘care’ facilities, they are institutions. End the...
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Jun 12, 20242 min read
Ontario moved 424 people into nursing homes they didn't choose
Province says system is working as it should Liam Casey and Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 12, 2024 1:25 PM EDT | Last...
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Deb Boekestein
May 4, 20241 min read
Trapped in bed, I’ve grown accustomed to hunger and despair — a year in LTC
I am on every crisis list to get out of this nursing home, even willing to move away from family for proper care. May 4, 2024 Deb...
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Ontario Nurses' Association
May 1, 20242 min read
Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes
Media Statement: Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes For-profit Extendicare CEO keynote...
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Stu Campaigne
Apr 30, 20242 min read
Ontario edging toward American health care model — health coalition
Ontario Health Coalition plans a May 30 protest. 'We're very close. If people don't care about their health care it's going to happen and...
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Ontario Nurses' Association
Apr 9, 20241 min read
Care Not Profit
On April 12, ONA members and allies will join all-out information pickets in communities across the province. These pickets will show our...
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Apr 5, 20241 min read
"Confused and isolated in a setting where they do not speak the language."
Cultural LTC admissions drying up in Ontario due to new priority rules Bill 7 allows people to be placed in a long-term-care home not of...
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Liam Casey
Apr 5, 20241 min read
Seven people fined $400 a day for refusing LTC transfers: Ontario government
Seven people fined for refusing Ont LTC transfers TORONTO - Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a...
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Joanna Petropoulos
Mar 11, 20242 min read
Inspection reports reveal further details on allegedly fraudulent LTC worker
Modified date: March 11, 2024, 11:41 am First Published: March 9, 2024, 8:00 pm Questions are swirling as to how a 29-year-old...
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Vivian Stamatopoulos
Mar 11, 20241 min read
I’m not letting this one go anytime soon, Stan Cho.
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos responds to the news story Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police. This...
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