Ontario Hospitals

• Pediatric drug shortage led to dosing errors in Ontario children, research shows

  Researchers found a twofold increase in calls to the Ontario Poison Centre for unintentional dosing errors of the medications for patients 18 years old or younger last fall.

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  May 31
  
• Over $42K in wrongful fees charged to Ontario patients by clinics since 2018

  Advocates and the province have differing interpretations of the relatively low number of charges found to go against laws protecting patients from paying for free health services.

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  May 9
  
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• No fines issued by hospitals under Ontario’s new long-term care law: province, OHA

  No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home.

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  Apr 24
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• Ontario Nurses’ Association says bargaining with hospitals has broken down

  The Ontario Nurses' Association says contract talks with the Ontario Hospital Association have broken down and will now head to arbitration in early May.

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  Mar 3
• Bargaining for Ontario hospital nurses enters mediation

  The nurses' union started bargaining with the hospitals in late January and if no deal is reached through mediation, it will go to an arbitrator in early May.

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  Mar 1
• Doug Ford says premiers are united in push for more health funding from Ottawa

  Ford says all the premiers have agreed to work together and stay united.

  Health

  Jan 20
• Staff poaching top concern for Ontario hospitals over new surgical centres: OHA

  The Ontario Hospital Association says hospitals should not lose nurses and doctors to a new system of private clinics the government will be using to reduce the surgical backlog.

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  Jan 18
• Campbellford Memorial Hospital ER to close Christmas Day due to staff shortage

  The hospital in the Municipality of Trent Hills, Ont., says a shortage in nursing staff has forced the closure of the Campbellford ER, from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 25.

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  Dec 22, 2022
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• Ontario provides $725,000 to Peterborough hospital to support ALC beds, emergency department

  Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith said that of the $725,109 investment, $537,000 will expand transitional care beds to assist ALC patient volumes.

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  Dec 19, 2022
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• Flu season may have peaked, Ontario’s top doctor says

  Chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore believes flu season hit its apex in recent days and says there has also been a slight decrease in respiratory syncytial virus.

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  Dec 15, 2022