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24-hour shifts for nurses at North Bay hospital puts patients at risk, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENorth Bay, ON - The North Bay Regional Health Centre is putting the health and safety of patients at risk by requiring nurses...
What’s driving 60% of Ottawa registered practical nurses (RPNs) to consider quitting? Media conference outside Hôpital Montfort, Wednesday 11 a.m.
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Several thousand Ottawa-based registered practical nurses considering leaving because of understaffing and low pay; new poll finds
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Stratford requires 42 additional hospital beds and 246 more staff to improve patient care over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis
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Ontario requires 8,170 additional hospital beds and 60,000 more staff to meet patient needs over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis
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Sudbury requires 105 extra hospital beds and 1,010 additional staff to meet demand over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis
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Founded in 1982, the 40,000 member Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE is the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario.
We represent hospital service workers, registered practical nurses, housekeeping, trades, clerical staff, and ambulance and paramedical personnel.
OCHU/CUPE bargains a provincial collective agreement for these CUPE Ontario members with the Ontario Hospital Association and lays that pattern down across the hospital sector and long-term care facilities that have a relationship with a hospital.
We also carry out advocacy on behalf of our members and on behalf of hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
OCHU/CUPE is an active partner with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition and works closely with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition whenever community health services are threatened with cuts or privatization.
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Oct 20 1904 – the founder of Canada’s Medicare system is born
Thomas Clement Douglas was born October 20th 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. But most of his life Canadian’s knew him as “Tommy”. He was an immigrant boy that almost lost his leg to illness but for the charity of a doctor who operated for free to save the limb. That act marked him, and he became committed to making sure Canadian had a medical system that did not rely of the luck of charity.
At 19 Douglas enrolled at Brandon College to study theology. It was there he was introduced to the social gospel, that and time spent in Chicago during the depression, convinced Douglas for the need for social change to address economic inequalities. Douglas became a Baptist minister in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. It was there that he joined the new Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 in the middle of the great depression.
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