KINGSTON, ON — With hospital occupancy at between 101 and 120 per cent for several months at Kingston General Hospital (KGH), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1974 and the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of CUPE called on the province today to open at least 45 fully-funded and staffed beds at the hospital.…
KINGSTON, ON — The fix to a consistently too-full Kingston General Hospital (KGH) is “not ill patients triaging themselves at home and staying away from hospital. It’s not sick patients on gurneys in hallways with overworked staff trying to keep up. The solution to the chronic shortage of inpatient beds must be a permanent one;…
SUDBURY, ON — The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) today called on the province to open at least 40 fully-funded and permanent beds at Health Sciences North (HSN). The beds are needed to alleviate the consistent strain from insufficient beds at the hospital, recently highlighted by the influx of patients suffering from the flu…
HAMILTON, ON — Hospital and long-term care staff from Ottawa, Kingston, Cornwall, New Liskeard, Sudbury, North Bay, Toronto and many communities in between, will be in Hamilton for a noon rally on Monday (February 6, 2017), to demand higher provincial funding for health care. It’s anticipated that over 1000 health care workers represented by the…
WINDSOR, ON — The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) today called on the province to open at least 50 fully-funded and permanent hospital beds for Windsor Regional Hospital. The beds are needed to deal with the strain on the hospital system to stem the persistent bed capacity problem, recently highlighted by the influx of…
SUDBURY, ON — As the clock ticks to the end of March layoff date for 38 Sudbury hospital laundry workers, “all we have is silence from the hospital and stall tactics from our MPP. But we aren’t going way and we know we have community support behind us to have these layoffs reversed,” say laundry…
HAMILTON, ON — There is overwhelming support among Hamilton residents for a significant funding increase for hospitals and long-term care homes, a poll released today found. 93.5 per cent of the 855 respondents polled, say they would support a real funding increase of at least 5 per cent for hospitals. Asked whether they support a funding increase…
HAMILTON, ON — The results of a poll about the Hamilton health care system, with a focus on area hospitals and long-term care homes will be released in Hamilton on Monday (January 30, 2017) at 10:30 a.m. at 795 King Street East, Hamilton. The poll conducted on January 22, 2017 surveys 855 Hamilton residents, 20…
SUDBURY, ON – Kevin Flynn, Ontario’s labour minister is in Sudbury today and soon to be laid off hospital laundry workers would love a word with him. Problem is, they can’t really afford to pay the hefty ticket price to join the minister at the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce luncheon where he’s slated to speak.…
ESPANOLA, ON — With provincial funding for Ontario hospital services falling for years, understaffing is getting worse in hospital environmental services, with reports of layoffs and cuts occurring regularly, a survey of front line cleaning staff has found. Concerns are growing among environmental service workers that Ontario hospitals do not have the capacity and enough…
