Protecting Public Healthcare in Waterloo Region

Public healthcare in Ontario is at a crossroads. As our hospitals, long-term care homes, and community health services face growing pressures, we’re here to ensure healthcare remains accessible, accountable, and there when you need it.

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Your Voice for Local Healthcare

The Waterloo Region Health Coalition is a non-partisan, volunteer-led group of residents, healthcare professionals, and families across Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge. We provide the research and local coordination necessary to protect our public services from the threat of privatization.

We serve as a community resource to help you navigate how provincial policy changes affect your local care. Our goal is to ensure that healthcare delivery stays in public hands, based on patient need rather than private profit.

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Healthcare Primer

Understanding Your Right to Public Healthcare

Healthcare in Canada was built on a simple promise: everyone gets care based on need, not ability to pay. But that foundation is shifting. Learn what’s at stake, how our system works, and why protecting public healthcare matters for you and your family.

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Long Term Care

Ensuring Dignity for Our Seniors

Long-term care in Ontario is in crisis. Understaffing, inadequate funding, and the expansion of for-profit care are compromising the safety and dignity of our most vulnerable residents. Discover what’s happening in Waterloo Region and how we can demand better for our loved ones.

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Home Care

Keeping Care in Our Communities

More seniors want to age at home, but home care services are being stretched thin and privatized. When care is driven by profit instead of patient need, our neighbors suffer. Find out how home care is changing and what it means for Waterloo Region families.

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Pharmacare

Making Medications Accessible to All

Millions of Canadians can’t afford essential medications. A universal pharmacare program could fix that by ensuring everyone has access to the medicines they need, regardless of income or insurance. Learn how national pharmacare could close coverage gaps and save billions.

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Privatization

When Profit Comes Before Patients

Across Ontario, pieces of our public healthcare system are being handed over to private, for-profit companies. From surgical clinics to diagnostic labs, this shift prioritizes shareholder returns over patient care. Understand what privatization really means and why it threatens equal access to healthcare.

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Current Focus

What We’re Working On Now

Our coalition responds to emerging threats and opportunities as they arise. From Bill 60 to hospital restructuring to advocacy campaigns, this is where you’ll find our most urgent work and how you can help make a difference right now in Waterloo Region.

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