Ontario Health

• Ontario boosts Land Ambulance Service Grant for Peterborough County-City Paramedics

  Funding via the Land Ambulance Service Grant (LASG) will see the paramedic service receive $9,490,038 in funding for 2023 — an addition of $914,328 to $8.7 million in 2022.

  Health

  Sep 22
  
• Doug Ford told ministers to significantly reform health and education in 2018 mandate letters

  The ministers of the province's largest ministries were both given sweeping mandates to roll out significant -- and potentially controversial -- changes.

  Politics

  Sep 13
  
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• Ontario to create $25M Black health hub in Peel Region

  Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is spending $25 million to create a Black health and social services hub in Peel Region.  

  Canada

  Sep 13
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• Some Ontario hospitals reinstating masking requirements

  Some eastern Ontario hospitals are bringing back mask requirements in patient-care areas as the respiratory virus season approaches.

  Health

  Sep 8
• Ontario provides Cobourg hospital with $5.5M for more beds, base funding

  The province says a net-new base funding increase of $2.1 million will support 10 permanent new beds for 2023-2024 at Northumberland Hills Hospital.

  Health

  Aug 25
• Ontario doctors weigh in on screen time and vaccinations ahead of back-to-school

  As parents prepare to send their children back to school, doctors in Ontario shared advice on routine, screen time and the risk of COVID-19 that lingers in the background.

  Health

  Aug 24
• Ontario offers money to public health units that voluntarily merge

  The Progressive Conservative government in 2019 proposed consolidating the province's public health units, but put those plans on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

  Canada

  Aug 22
• COVID-19 outbreak declared over at Northumberland Hills Hospital in Cobourg

  Regular visitation guidelines resumed on Tuesday. At the time of the outbreak declaration on Aug. 14, there were eight patients in the unit who had tested positive for COVID-19.

  Health

  Aug 22
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• Panel recommends Campbellford Memorial Hospital dissolve nurse float resource pool

  Following a three-day hearing in June, a nursing panel has provided 141 recommendations to improve working conditions in the medical/surgical units at the 70-year-old hospital.

  Health

  Aug 17
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• Ontario boosts pediatric health care funding by $330M a year

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford is announcing that the province will be spending an additional $330 million each year on pediatric health services.

  Politics

  Jul 19