Simcoe County Health Coalition

Grassroots group advocating for the protection and improvement of public not-for-profit healthcare in Simcoe County. Join us!

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

1/3 From higher costs to corruption, Ontario’s private clinics are a fiasco. What’s going on? How can Ford’s reckless policies be exposed and defeated?

Find out at 7PM on Tues, Nov 28 - join the online forum presented by @GTorontoHC & Ontario Health Coalition! Zoom link in🧵

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

REGISTER NOW AT: https://t.co/RfU8sQBd4F

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS ONLINE PUBLIC FORUM!
REGISTER NOW AT: https://t.co/RfU8sQBKUd
#Corruption #onpoli #onhealth #GTHC #ohc #ontario #privatization #notforsale

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

Join us for this important online forum! #onhealth #onpoli #ontariohc #simcoecounty #Zoom

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

From higher costs to corruption in Ontario's private clinics, join @GTorontoHC and us for this forum to hear from researchers & advocates about how Ford’s reckless policies can be exposed & defeated.

Register here on Zoom: https://t.co/fybKxZp2mN

Speakers & co-sponsors in🧵⬇️

[Diana Murphy @diana_murphy613]

@Avis_Favaro @Avis_Favaro Doctors have been calling for this for years and years.

When they cancelled OR's at the Civic and Riverside last week to accommodate for the fire at the General that was my husband's first response.

Why not work in the evenings for the week? He would have.

[Carolyn Snider @DrCarolynSnider]

@Avis_Favaro I remember being at a conference in medical school where they spoke about the concept of "smoothing" - a hospital that moved to a 7d/wk of scheduled days/evenings improved flow so much that they cancelled a building project. I've been an MD for > 20 years now.

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

Operating rooms are sitting idle in the evenings & overnight. Open those to patient care before creating private hospitals : report https://t.co/VUdej0WYFj

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

While she was Health Minister, Don Mills Surgical, a private for-profit hospital, got a 278% increase in funding. She didn't run again in the 2022 election, and now Christine Elliott @celliottability has become a lobbyist for Don Mills Surgical.

It should be illegal.

[United Nurses of Alberta @UnitedNurses]

"I'm very angry," said UNA President Heather Smith.

"We desperately need to retain the resources we have and recruit new resources. There couldn't have been a worse treatment prescribed."

Read more: https://t.co/zj2jor3uEi #ableg #abhealth

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

Politicians who retire from office often ‘follow the money’ in their post-politics career. This strikes me as an important signal in Ontario.

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

We have what we need to solve the healthcare crisis in Ontario without lining the pockets of profiteers.
Fund, staff and open our public hospitals' operating rooms full-time NOW!
#ONhealth #ONpoli #healthcare #privatization #FixItDontSellIt #NotForSale #RespectHCW

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

Operating rooms are sitting idle in the evenings & overnight. Open those to patient care before creating private hospitals : report https://t.co/VUdej0WYFj

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

Great summary here.

[Frank Domenic @TheFrankDomenic]

At What Cost, new report by the Canadian Center For Policy Alternatives, highlights how Fords privatization of healthcare will only create worse outcomes. This video was made in partnership with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #ontariohealthcare

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

Looking forward to this roundtable with the candidates for the @OntLiberal party on Monday.
#ONhealth #onpoli #healthcare

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

@OntLiberal Party is electing its new leader Dec 2.
We wanted to find out how the candidates are thinking about the key health care issues.
All the candidates but one have agreed to join a virtual roundtable Q & A session.
All are welcome to attend here's how>>
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#ONpoli

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

@OntLiberal Party is electing its new leader Dec 2.
We wanted to find out how the candidates are thinking about the key health care issues.
All the candidates but one have agreed to join a virtual roundtable Q & A session.
All are welcome to attend here's how>>
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#ONpoli

[Wayne Gates @Wayne_Gates]

Longer wait times.

Hidden, out-of-pocket fees.

A worsened staffing crisis.

Two-tier, American-style private health care will be a disaster for Ontario.

But Doug Ford is continuing to attack our health care system.

We must stand up for publicly-funded & delivered care.

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

Andrew Longhurst, author of the report: "At What Cost? Ontario hospital privatization and the threat to public health care"; Michael Hurley, president, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, CUPE, and #simcoecountyhc Co-chair Anisa Carrascal spoke at the event.

[Simcoe County Health Coalition @SimcoeCountyHC]

A small group of #simcoecountyhc supporters attended a media conference in #barrieontario today.
#onhealth
#privatization #atwhatcost @ccpa
@OntarioHealthC

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

More private medical clinics means longer wait times through the system, as they siphon off skilled health care workers - Ontario report suggests https://t.co/swZKMUUEcM @KateDeClerq @CTVNewsToronto #healthcare #privatemedicine

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

In this scale of emergency, one would expect that extraordinary efforts would be made to stabilize and improve health care.
Instead, the gov't is increasing health funding at less than the rate of inflation & funding plans are far less than needed, even to meet announced plans.

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

As we write, Ontario is in the worst health care crisis in memory.
- Public hospital services are facing repeated & unprecedented closures
- ICUs are desperately understaffed
- 10s of 1000s wait for LTC
- An unprecedented staffing crisis extends across health care