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No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government
New analysis shows province faces a 13,800 shortfall of hospital beds by 2032
No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government
New analysis shows province faces a 13,800 shortfall of hospital beds by 2032
NO RESPITE: ONTARIO’S FAILURE TO PLAN FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS
Ontario is experiencing unprecedented hospital capacityproblems since the election of the Ford government. Thousandsof unplanned closures of...
“An appalling failure to plan:” new research report to reveal huge shortfall between the hospital capacity required by 2032 and the Ford government’s ten-year plan
Media conference at Queen’s Park at 10 a.m. on September 4 to reveal full findings
CMAJ study showing lower income people have less access to for-profit cataract surgeries must force a reconsideration of policy, says hospital union
In response to new research showing that wealthy Ontarians are disproportionately benefiting from for-profit clinics, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is demanding the province halt public funding for private surgeries and invest in cataracts provided by public hospitals.
Intro to the Central Hospital Agreement
Are you attending the September 4-5 educational? Contact admin@ochu.on.ca to register.
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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