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She waited 40 hours in the ER, surrounded by sick patients. It was the most dangerous place she could be — and a worsening reality in Ontario
A long wait for a woman who was very vulnerable to infection was a stark example of the problems in Ontario’s emergency departments. By...
Megan Ogilvie
Feb 232 min read
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Seniors continue to ask how Pickering’s Orchard Villa gets to grow, despite harrowing COVID-19 outbreak
Group receives heavily redacted info Tuesday, February 11, 2025 By Kristen Calis Pickering News Advertiser The group Seniors for Social...
Kristen Calis
Feb 122 min read
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The Health X Files: How Largely Secret Licensing and Funding Arrangements in Long-Term Care Cost the Public Billions with Little Public Accountability
Editorial January 20, 2025 The public has, for over forty years, been barraged with horror stories in long-term care institutions. But...
Patricia Spindel
Jan 201 min read
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Who will be the voice for those vulnerable seniors that suffered and died in Care Homes in dire circumstances during the Covid 19 pandemic?
The military was deployed to nursing homes in Ontario and Quebec to reinforce workers overwhelmed by the illness, unable to keep up with...
Joseph Amatruda
Jan 165 min read
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‘Patients at risk.’ Doctors raise alarm over new long-term-care role for nurse practitioners
Proposed change has been a “long-time coming,” says Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario CEO Doris Grinspun. “Let’s move on and do...
Kenyon Wallace
Dec 13, 20241 min read
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No due process. No rights and no humanity.
Important Research and Advocacy Report Calling For Criminal Investigations In Long-Term Care Institutions November 4, 2024 Seniors for...
Seniors for Social Action (Ontario)
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Stand up for seniors who suffered and died in for-profit LTC
This GoFundMe is for our court challenge to the Ford government's decision to reward Orchard Villa with a planned new 30-year license and...
Ontario Health Coalition
Nov 3, 20241 min read
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Backroom deals show it’s time to hold Ford to account on health care
Jul 9, 2024 by Erin Ariss With rumours swirling over an early provincial election call, it’s time for all citizens of Ontario to think...
Erin Ariss
Jul 16, 20241 min read
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Nursing Home Closures in Toronto
“They aren’t nursing ‘homes’, they are institutions. They aren’t long-term ‘care’ facilities, they are institutions. End the...
Ontario Advocacy Consortium
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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Trapped in bed, I’ve grown accustomed to hunger and despair — a year in LTC
I am on every crisis list to get out of this nursing home, even willing to move away from family for proper care. May 4, 2024 Deb...
Deb Boekestein
May 4, 20241 min read
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Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes
Media Statement: Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes For-profit Extendicare CEO keynote...
Ontario Nurses' Association
May 1, 20242 min read
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Ontario edging toward American health care model — health coalition
Ontario Health Coalition plans a May 30 protest. 'We're very close. If people don't care about their health care it's going to happen and...
Stu Campaigne
Apr 30, 20242 min read
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Ford government wins battle to keep health-care staffing shortage figures secret
By Isaac Callan & Colin D'Mello Global News Posted April 24, 2024 The Ford government has won a privacy battle to keep the extent of its...
Isaac Callan
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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For-Profit Healthcare: Who Really Pays the Price?
Doug Ford is following the lead of Alberta and B.C. by implementing for-profit healthcare. Now we know that the cost to patients and...
Green Party of Ontario
Apr 15, 20241 min read
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"Confused and isolated in a setting where they do not speak the language."
Cultural LTC admissions drying up in Ontario due to new priority rules Bill 7 allows people to be placed in a long-term-care home not of...
Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Apr 5, 20241 min read
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Seven people fined $400 a day for refusing LTC transfers: Ontario government
Seven people fined for refusing Ont LTC transfers TORONTO - Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a...
Liam Casey
Apr 5, 20241 min read
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Inspection reports reveal further details on allegedly fraudulent LTC worker
Modified date: March 11, 2024, 11:41 am First Published: March 9, 2024, 8:00 pm Questions are swirling as to how a 29-year-old...
Joanna Petropoulos
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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I’m not letting this one go anytime soon, Stan Cho.
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos responds to the news story Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police. This...
Vivian Stamatopoulos
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police
Published March 8, 2024 A 29-year-old woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly posing as a qualified nurse to obtain...
Brooklyn Connolly
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Stop Orchard Villa's Licence Renewal
Health advocates asking judge to quash licence renewal for Pickering’s Orchard Villa February 13, 2024 Advocates and family members are...
DurhamRadioNews.com
Feb 18, 20241 min read
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