Ontario Hospitals

• Ontario hospitals spent over $9B on agency staff over 10 years, study finds

  Ontario hospitals spent more than $9 billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes.

  Health

  May 12
  
• ‘If we close, people die’: Rural Ontario hospitals await ER staffing certainty

  Rural and northern Ontario hospitals are anxiously awaiting word from the provincial government on a program that helps them keep emergency rooms open, after it ended last month.

  Health

  Apr 7
  
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• 3 charged after records inappropriately accessed at Ontario hospitals: police

  Three people have been charged after records were accessed inappropriately at several hospitals across the province, OPP said Thursday.

  Crime

  Dec 19, 2024
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• ‘It’ll take time’: Ontario hospital trying to rebuild after board resigns en masse

  The head of the London Health Sciences Centre says the organization is taking a cautious approach to how it moves forward after a tumultuous few months.

  Health

  Oct 24, 2024
• Millions in Ontario expected to live with a major illness by 2040: report

  Over a span of 20 years, the number of adults living with a major illness in Ontario is expected to nearly double, a new report from the University of Toronto warns.

  Health

  Oct 16, 2024
• AI ‘early warning’ system shows promise in preventing hospital deaths, study says

  An AI early-warning system that predicts which patients are at risk of deteriorating while in hospital was associated with a decrease in unexpected deaths, a new study says.

  Health

  Sep 16, 2024
• Code red: How more Ontario hospitals are struggling with balancing the books

  Critics say the situation at the London Health Sciences Centre speaks to a larger issue, with health experts warning that most Ontario hospitals are projecting a deficit.

  Health

  Sep 14, 2024
• Ontario family receives massive hospital bill as part of LTC law, refuses to pay

  An Ontario woman has received an $8,400 bill from a Windsor hospital after she refused to put her mother in a nursing home she hated – she says she has no intention of paying it. 

  Health

  May 9, 2024
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• Ontario won’t divulge fines for hospital patients refusing LTC transfers

  Ontario is refusing to divulge the amount of money that seven patients have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing.

  Politics

  Apr 11, 2024
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• ‘I’m not paying it’: Ontario family furious over $400/day hospital fine for not moving to LTC

  Campeau chose neither – the family has been racking up a monster bill since March 11 that remains unpaid while her mother has stayed on at a Windsor, Ont., hospital. 

  Health

  Apr 10, 2024