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Not getting the home care you need?
Call CUPE Ontario’s home care hotline (1-888-599-0770), tell us your story
Despite a growing need for home care as more hospital beds and services are eliminated, there are hundreds of ill, elderly or socially isolated people throughout Ontario who need home care but aren’t getting it.
In eastern Ontario alone over a 1000 vulnerable patients were recently cut off from receiving home care altogether. Others have had their care hours cut by the local Community Care Access Centre (CCAC).
Even though the provincial government says patients not receiving care in hospitals will be able to access supports at home, the reality is that many are not getting the care they need. The province is underfunding all aspects of health care including home and community care.
We want to hear from Ontario patients about how they have been affected.
Call our hotline: 1-888-599-0770
Tell us your story.
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On Dec. 12, Michael Hurley, first vice-president, CUPE Ontario and Heather Duff, CUPE member and community care access centre worker announced the new 1-888 hotline in Cornwall. They encouraged patients to call and recount their stories.
Click here to view the media release.
CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and Heather Duff, CUPE member and community care access centre worker announced the new 1-888 hotline to media in London on Dec. 16.
Click here to view the media release.
News Articles:
CUPE launches health care hotline at Cornwall press conference (Cornwall Standard-Freeholder)
CUPE wants to hear your home care problems (CTV News London)
People who can’t get care urged to call hotline (The London Free Press)
