Ontario Hospitals

• Ontario hospitals told to find savings; ministry doesn’t rule out service cuts

  The Ontario Hospital Association has said that hospitals ended last year $360 million in the red and need an additional funding to keep pace with population growth and inflation.

  Health

  Oct 20, 2025
  
• Ontario hospital’s special room offers better pain relief for IUD, other gyno procedures

  A hospital network in Ontario has established a specialized room that offers better pain relief for some gynecological procedures such as IUD insertions and removals.

  Health

  Oct 10, 2025
  
• Advertisement
• Ontario hospitals say they have $1 billion in funding needs

  Hospitals across the province struggled with deficits, with many of them — small and large, urban and rural — ending the year in the red. 

  Health

  Oct 8, 2025
• Advertisement
• 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, 2025
• ‘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, 2025
• 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
• ‘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
• Advertisement
• 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
• Advertisement
• 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