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Patricia Spindel
3 days ago1 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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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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Erin Ariss
Jul 16, 20241 min read
Backroom deals show it’s time to hold Ford to account on health care
Jul 9, 2024 by Erin Ariss With rumours swirling over an early provincial election call, it’s time for all citizens of Ontario to think...
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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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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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Isaac Callan
Apr 24, 20241 min read
Ford government wins battle to keep health-care staffing shortage figures secret
By Isaac Callan & Colin D'Mello Global News Posted April 24, 2024 The Ford government has won a privacy battle to keep the extent of its...
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Green Party of Ontario
Apr 15, 20241 min read
For-Profit Healthcare: Who Really Pays the Price?
Doug Ford is following the lead of Alberta and B.C. by implementing for-profit healthcare. Now we know that the cost to patients and...
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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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Brooklyn Connolly
Mar 11, 20241 min read
Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police
Published March 8, 2024 A 29-year-old woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly posing as a qualified nurse to obtain...
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DurhamRadioNews.com
Feb 18, 20241 min read
Stop Orchard Villa's Licence Renewal
Health advocates asking judge to quash licence renewal for Pickering’s Orchard Villa February 13, 2024 Advocates and family members are...
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Isaac Callan
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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...
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Christian Lopez
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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....
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