TORONTO, ON (July 19, 2016) – Home care services of more than 1500 infirm and elderly, inner city patients provided by Toronto’s Neighbourhood Group are still in peril of coming to an end despite today’s announcement of additional sector-wide funding by the provincial government. Personal Support Workers from Neighbourhood Group provide home care to low…
GRAVENHURST, ON – Residents at Muskoka Shore Nursing Home are not getting the level of care they need and the Wynne government must take immediate action, said staff from the home who held a rally Monday to draw attention to the urgent situation. “We now have only three personal support workers scheduled for every 60…
PETERBOROUGH, ON — CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn today called on the Peterborough Regional Health Centre to take a much more active part in the talks between its food contractor and the staff working in retail food operations at the hospital to avoid a lock-out. Recent polling showed overwhelming support in the Peterborough community for…
PETERBOROUGH, ON — CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn says the Peterborough Regional Health Centre is obligated to take a much more active part in the talks between its food contractor and the staff working in retail food operations at the hospital. Hahn will be in Peterborough at a media conference on Tuesday, July 12, 2016…
GODERICH, ON – County of Huron paramedics, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are urging county council to reject the proposal to phase out Advanced Care Paramedics (ACPs) in Huron County. Council will vote to decide on this proposal to lower the quality of paramedical care on July 6, which will affect…
NORTH BAY, ON – Repeated studies show that publicly run long-term care homes provide better quality of care for residents than either private not-for-profit or for-profit homes, the Cassellholme Board learned at their meeting today. “Multiple studies show that publicly run homes have fewer hospitalizations, lower death-rates and a lower use of anti-psychotic medications that…
NORTH BAY, ON – Quality of care for North Bay and area’s aging seniors is what’s at stake in the impending decision, by the Cassellholme Board, on how redevelopment of the long-term care home moves ahead, says Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, who’s in town Thursday to meet with the Board. “Decisions about how…
TORONTO, CHATHAM-KENT, ON – Maintaining long-term, top quality emergency medical response for the residents of Chatham-Kent must be the top priority for the Mayor and council, said Jeff Van Pelt, from the Ontario Paramedics Working Group, at an info picket today outside the Chatham-Kent Municipal Building. Organized by local paramedics, represented by the Service Employees…
NORTH BAY, ON — Residents in North Bay and east Nipissing firmly support their taxes going toward resident care at Cassellholme. But there is overwhelming opposition to divesting Cassellholme into a privately-run nursing home, according to an area-wide poll released today. Cassellholme is the only public, municipal home for nine east Nipissing municipalities. Behind the…
HAMILTON, ON — Hamilton residents are not on board with closing a hospital, anymore hospital service and patient care cuts or for that matter a new round of hospital bed closures, a poll released today found. Conducted earlier in May, the poll asked over 1200 Hamilton residents questions about area hospitals, which collectively service a…
