The office announced issues related to staffing levels, infection prevention and control measures, restrictions on visitations, and information communication will all be examined.

All non-urgent care will resume in a gradual, phased manner at the five hospitals in central Ontario, according to a joint release Friday.

Ontario's health-care system must shift its focus away from hospitals and towards strong community care for everyone if it hopes to stave off future crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization representing the province's nurses said Tuesday as it called for urgent, sweeping reforms.

Health officials say that if passed, the legislation will allow for more flexibility in the system, in part by doing away with service maximums.

A family doctor who sent a dying infant home with instructions to give him water and juice with vitamin C and who failed to report criminal driving convictions has been stripped of his medical licence.

Ontario's provincial health coverage for most types of out-of-country medical expenses will end as of Jan. 1.

"Each year, Ontario hospitals discharge one million people," Lysyk said. "Of those, about 67,000 people were harmed during their hospital stay."

Health Minister Christine Elliott says patients will be able to go online to book appointments that work best for them, and review their secure health record online.

The province's 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and six health agencies will be consolidated into a new super agency called Ontario Health for an estimated $350 million a year in savings.

Hundreds of people ranging from health professionals to patients gathered in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday to protest the Ontario government's approach to health care.