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Ontario hospitals ask for nearly $1 billion to ease hallway health-care problem
Saturday, January 18th, 2020
“Ontario hospitals are the most efficient in the entire country”… the additional $922 million sought for 141 publicly-funded hospitals represents an increase of 4.85 per cent. “You can’t expect to end hallway health care and keep asking hospitals to cut their expenditures and become more efficient given what the data shows. Our backs are against the wall here.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Ontario axing 9 execs in bid to save money, increase efficiencies in health care
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
A health ministry official said no other employees other than the head of the LHINs, which provide local health care planning, are being laid off now and no offices are closing, but in future there will be “significant” savings as real estate assets are consolidated… Under the plan, between 30 and 50 “Ontario Health Teams” will form across the province to co-ordinate all levels of care, from doctor visits to hospitals stays and home care.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Ontario government earmarks $40M for more mental health workers in high schools
Friday, October 11th, 2019
The $40 million doubles what the provincial government spent on student mental health two years ago and should “better prepare those people on the front lines” such as teachers and principals into handling troublesome situations and speed “early intervention and assessment,” Lecce said… 70 per cent of mental health and addiction problems begin in the teen years.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, mental Health, youth
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Non-profit groups get five-year freeze on WSIB premiums
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
… non-profit organizations are getting a financial break with a five-year freeze on their Workplace Safety and Insurance Board premiums as the Ontario government agency lowers its average premium rate for all employers by 17 per cent. The freeze will help almost 2,700 non-profits while another 1,600 will see premiums drop…
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, philanthropy
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Ontario boosts money for home and community care to alleviate hospital overcrowding
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
Ontario’s government is putting $11 million more than planned into home and community care this year in a bid to lower the number of patients being treated in the hallways of overcrowded hospitals, says Health Minister Christine Elliott. The money is on top of $144 million announced in the spring budget and includes $45 million aimed at “high need” areas where problems are most severe…
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health
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PC MPP who referees Ontario’s legislature wants to see better behaviour
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
Speaker Ted Arnott singles out “repeated and contrived standing ovations” in the legislature’s daily question period, noting they “do not lead us to a higher standard of parliamentary decorum.” … “No question is enhanced by a gratuitous personal insult, and no response is elevated by the dismissive avoidance of a legitimate issue raised…
Tags: jurisdiction, participation
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Ford government to cap pay raises for public servants in bid to control spending
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
TheStar.com – Politics June 5, 2019. By Robert Benzie, Rob Ferguson, Kristin Rushowy, Queen’s Park Bureau In a bid to rein in spending, Premier Doug Ford is threatening to impose a cap on pay hikes for 1 million public servants. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives on Wednesday tabled legislation that would limit annual wage increases to 1 per cent when […]
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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New Ontario Health agency would overhaul ‘disconnected’ medical system, minister says
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
The promise to make a complicated system easier for patients to navigate came with the acknowledgement from Elliott and senior officials that the “transformation” will take at least three years — coinciding with the next provincial election — and with many details yet to be worked out… she announced between 30 and 50 “Ontario Health Teams” will form across the province to better co-ordinate all levels of care. Each will serve about 300,000 people in a geographic area or a specific group of patients across the province, such as children with fragile medical conditions.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, mental Health
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Ontario’s looming health care reforms are being rushed through to limit public scrutiny, critics say
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
TheStar.com Politics/Provincial Politics Feb. 11, 2019. By ROB FERGUSON, Queen’s Park Bureau The Ford government’s looming health-care system “transformation” is being rushed through with little explanation to limit scrutiny by the public, the Ontario Health Coalition charges. Citing confidential draft legislation and other documents leaked to the New Democrats indicating elements of the plan — […]
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, privatization
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Liberals warn teachers, doctors over pay
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Apr 12 2012
Mired in debt and at risk of an election by late May, Ontario’s minority Liberal government took dead aim at teachers and doctors Thursday in a bid for public support to keep their wage hike demands to zero. Education Minister Laurel Broten warned elementary teachers of 10,000 layoffs unless they accept a pay freeze while Health Minister Deb Matthews told physicians “I am here to stand up for taxpayers.”
Tags: budget, economy, tax
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