Michael Hurley is the president of CUPE s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (TBNewswatch file)
TORONTO The Canadian Union of Public Employees says current spending proposals by the provincial government will put Northwestern Ontario hospitals under significant cost pressures.
CUPE held a news conference Wednesday to release a union research paper called
Ontario Hospital Crisis: Overcapacity and Under Threat.
It said it used government data to extrapolate spending projections, and found that province-wide hospital funding will fall almost $600 million behind in the first year, and over $4.4 billion in eight years.
Assuming that staffing follows funding, CUPE said this would mean about 15 per cent less staff relative to demand.
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Spinal surgeries are now being conducted at the Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora. (File photo)
KENORA – Kenora-area residents now have a chance to access spinal surgery closer to home, thanks to a new partnership between the Lake of the Woods District Hospital and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.
Multiple patients have already undergone orthopaedic procedures in Kenora, the hospitals reported in a joint release Monday.
The expansion of services comes through the TBRHSC’s Regional Surgical Services program, which has also seen partnerships created with Dryden Regional Health Care and Riverside Health Care in Fort Frances since launching in 2016.
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Kenora District Homes have partnered with Fort Frances’s Riverside Health Care to deliver a series of new social engagement services across northwestern Ontario.
Delivered via telephone or video call, the services are intended to ease the impact of increased isolation on seniors and other vulnerable populations who are facing a reduced ability to socialize due to COVID-19. Seniors living alone within the Kenora and Rainy River Districts are provided with regular check-ins meant to help reduce any anxiety, depression, and loneliness that they may be feeling as a result of the pandemic.
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