External News Archives - Ontario Council of Hospital Unions

Hospital overcrowding – the Ontario Health Coalition wants your stories

Feb 14, 2020

If you are willing to share your story, please email ohc@sympatico.ca with “ATTN Megan” in the subject line, or call 416-441-2502 and say you have a hospital overcrowding experience. Your story can be kept confidential.

‘Everyone is terrified’: What’s behind workplace violence at Newmarket’s Southlake hospital?

Feb 12, 2020

“The number of code white alarm calls at Southlake, sounded when someone is at risk of violence, rose from 402 in 2015-16 to 653 in 2016-17. In 2017-18, there were 549 calls.”

Ontario Hospitals: Leaders in Efficiency

Dec 31, 2019

Ontario hospitals lead the country with their longstanding, lean operational performance. However, they are clearly showing signs of strain – largely due to multiple years of funding restraint, the lack of system-wide capacity planning, significant demographic growth and a shortage of capacity in other health sectors.

Given the extraordinary gains in efficiency made by Ontario hospitals, the expectation that more can be harvested simply isn’t realistic, and at many organizations, continued access to high-quality hospital services is now at risk.

Northern Ireland nurses strike over pay and patient safety

Dec 19, 2019

More than 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland are striking for better pay and increased staffing in a healthcare service mired in crisis.

Almonte General Hospital Registered Practical Nurse Receives $10,000 Grant

Nov 27, 2019

Grant project will explore ways that nurses in Almonte can work up to their full scope of practice.

A workplace pension could be worth three times an RRSP — yet only 37% of Canadians have one

Nov 26, 2019

Every dollar contributed to a Canada-model pension — a pension with scale, risk pooling and internal fiduciary management — a retiree can expect $5.32 of retirement income compared with the $1.70 of retirement income from the typical individual approach.

The GM Strike and the Historical Convergence of Possibilities

Nov 6, 2019

On September 16, 2019, forty-six thousand defiant General Motors (GM) workers streamed out on strike. This eruption of long-festering worker anger and frustrations was directed not only at a corporation that had treated its workforce so shabbily, but also at the often-complicit role of their own union.

‘Happens too often’: Stabbing of HSN nurse by patient highlights pervasive violence in health care sector

Oct 25, 2019

Nurse received serious injuries after being stabbed with screwdriver; 62-year-old man charged with assault A recent incident at Health Sciences North involving an employee being stabbed by a patient highlights the pervasive...

Ontario health minister says ending ‘hallway health care’ will take longer than Ford promised last week

Jul 15, 2019

Health Minister Christine Elliott is walking back remarks made by Premier Doug Ford at the annual...

Ontario Health Coalition on Ford’s Cabinet Shuffle

Jun 21, 2019

In his press conference announcing the cabinet shuffle, Premier Doug Ford claimed that more than 80 percent of his platform had been implemented. The Health Coalition notes that nothing could be further than the truth when it...