• Over the past two years, the expertise and dedication of researchers, clinician-scientists and teams from Ontario's hospitals have resulted in remarkable breakthroughs in the fight against COVID-19,' Dale said. (oha.com)
  • The race to save lives and recover our economies rests on science and the continued contributions from Ontario's hospitals to the global research and innovation ecosystem. (oha.com)
  • About one in six beds in Ontario's hospitals are occupied by patients who no longer need hospital care. (healthydebate.ca)
  • This month, let's get out and vote to fight back against the privatization of Ontario's public hospitals! (opseu.org)
  • The OHA (Ontario Hospital Association) believes that COVID-19 vaccination policies within Ontario's hospitals should remain in place given that they offer the highest level of protection for patients and health care workers. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The program is funded through the Province of Ontario's Hospital Energy Efficiency Program (HEEP) and the Hospital Infrastructure Renewal Funding (HIRF). (esmagazine.com)
  • Reducing Northeastern Ontario's hospital energy costs will help the environment, our hospitals, and ultimately Northerners as savings can be directed to frontline patient care. (esmagazine.com)
  • This program is an initiative of the Climate Change Action Plan and uses proceeds from Ontario's carbon market to modernize facilities such as hospitals, universities, and heritage buildings. (esmagazine.com)
  • Is Ontario's reliance on donations to fund hospital infrastructure fair and sustainable? (healthydebate.ca)
  • Improving staffing levels would also help address capacity issue in Ontario's hospitals, according to the OCHU/CUPE report. (cupe.ca)
  • However, the report says the problem goes beyond staffing shortages as Ontario's hospital capacity per capita has sharply declined over the past three decades. (cupe.ca)
  • At the request of Dr. Fred W. Routley, then the Ontario Director of the Canadian Red Cross, a group of hospital workers met on December 13, 1923 at the Toronto Academy of Medicine to establish the OHA. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a memo obtained by CTV News Toronto, dated May 23, the province's associate chief medical officer of health said an increase of cases had been reported in Ontario among all age groups, including children under the age of 18. (cp24.com)
  • I'm very excited about the opportunity to continue my research with increased protected time from my clinical work, and to work more closely with Ministry staff to have an impact on policy and the direction of health care in Ontario," said Cheung, who is also an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. (sunnybrook.ca)
  • At a number of Toronto-area hospitals, including at Mount Sinai, North York General, Women's College, Lakeridge, St. Josheph's and St. Michael's Unity Health, masks continue to be required in patient-care areas but are optional elsewhere. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Dr. Fahad Razak, an internist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said institutions individually changing their guidelines is a clear recognition the province is in another COVID-19 wave. (ctvnews.ca)
  • TORONTO , sept. 27, 2018 /CNW/ - Far from delivering a "line-by-line" accounting of provincial funding, the PC government's $500,000 Ernst and Young (EY) report on the province's finances "is gun for hire advocacy for downsizing public services, the sale of profitable provincial assets, user fees, means testing and increased privatization," says Michael Hurley , president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE (OCHU). (newswire.ca)
  • TORONTO - Ontario hospitals are feeling the brunt of soaring COVID-19 case counts as the virus rips through the province at record speed and infects high numbers of patients and health care workers. (ohscanada.com)
  • The number of staff unable to work at UHN's five facilities in recent weeks, including Toronto General, Toronto Western and Princess Margaret Hospitals, is higher than what the facilities experienced in previous waves of the virus. (ohscanada.com)
  • West of Toronto, similar moves are being considered at Hamilton Health Sciences, which runs Hamilton General Hospital. (ohscanada.com)
  • In Toronto, capacity would need to go up by about 2,270 beds and staffing levels by approximately 11,960 more hospital workers. (cupe.ca)
  • TORONTO - Ontario Liberal Leader, Steven Del Duca has invited healthcare and political leaders to a nonpartisan virtual summit on addressing the hospital staffing crisis, and to discuss a unified plan on how to immediately shore up capacity. (ontarioliberal.ca)
  • Capacity and Privatization in Ontario Hospitals - Regional reports Toronto, ON. (ochu.on.ca)
  • Workers from hospitals across Toronto held a series of rallies today outside St. Joseph's Health Centre, St. Michael's Hospital, and Providence Healthcare to speak out against the Ford government's plan to privatize hospital services. (ochu.on.ca)
  • VUC may be an appropriate alternative healthcare option for patients who have non-life-threatening medical concerns or for patients who have difficulty accessing in-person healthcare," study author Shelley McLeod, PhD, research director of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, told Medscape Medical News . (medscape.com)
  • Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (bvsalud.org)
  • Background - Antibiotic stewardship is a required organizational practice for Canadian acute care hospitals, yet data are scarce regarding the quantity and composition of antibiotic use across facilities. (ices.on.ca)
  • We sought to examine the variability, and risk-adjusted variability, in antibiotic use across acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada's most populous province. (ices.on.ca)
  • Results - There was 7.4-fold variability in the quantity of antibiotic use across the 129 acute care hospitals, from 253 to 1873 DDDs/1000 PDs. (ices.on.ca)
  • Conclusions - There is extensive variability in antibiotic use, and risk-adjusted use, across acute care hospitals. (ices.on.ca)
  • The Ottawa Hospital's new campus will become one of Canada's largest adult acute care hospitals, and home to one of Canada's leading trauma centers. (cyberimpact.com)
  • The requirement for schools, health-care settings and hospitals to enforce COVID-19 vaccination policies and mandatory testing for unvaccinated staff end on Monday. (cbc.ca)
  • While health-care networks in most provinces abandoned vaccine mandates for workers earlier this year, B.C. Nova Scotia and Ontario remain the three that continue to enforce COVID-19 vaccinations. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The study was led by Canadian researchers Dr. Jim Brophy and Dr. Margaret Keith affiliated with the University of Windsor and the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom, and Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). (securitymagazine.com)
  • A recent study by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) predicts that the PCs will need to cut 3,500 hospital beds and 16,500 hospital staff to fulfill their promises to balance the budget. (newswire.ca)
  • The crisis in the province's hospital sector will only worsen over the next four years, unless Ontario makes significant investments to improve staffing levels and capacity, warns a new report released today by CUPE's Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). (cupe.ca)
  • Public Health Ontario says 894 cases of iGAS were reported in the province between October 2022 and April 30, 2023. (cp24.com)
  • May 12, 2023 (Collingwood, ON) - More than 130 recommendations must be implemented at the emergency department at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital (CGMH) to help improve patient care, retain nurses and improve working conditions, concludes an independent nursing expert panel. (ona.org)
  • The OHA and its membership congratulates the 19 hospitals that have been recognized for 2021 and applauds these organizations for the significant contributions made over the past year to health research in Canada. (oha.com)
  • A virtual urgent care (VUC) pilot program in Ontario, Canada, had limited impact on in-person emergency department visits in 2021, according to a new study. (medscape.com)
  • The move to lift mandatory vaccine policies comes after the province's top doctor announced Ontario is gearing up to lift all remaining mask requirements and emergency orders meant to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by April 27. (cbc.ca)
  • Ontario health officials are reporting a total of 1,106 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 319 people in the province's intensive care units. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The interventions included in the review were offered by hospital staff (eg, physicians, nurses, or other allied health professionals), and could involve the provision of advice, intensive counselling, pharmacotherapy and follow-up contact after hospital discharge. (bmj.com)
  • He is also looking at redeploying staff to areas most in need and pulling hospital doctors and nurses back from vaccine clinics, where they can be replaced with other regulated health care workers. (ohscanada.com)
  • Although members of the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) had been raising serious concerns about untenable working conditions in the emergency department for years, an Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) - a last resort step taken by ONA - was called in to address issues that could not be resolved between nurses and CGMH. (ona.org)
  • The government must address the untenable situation in our public hospitals on a war footing," says Michael Hurley, the president of OCHU/CUPE, which represents 40,000 hospital workers across the province. (cupe.ca)
  • OCHU/CUPE cites recent Statistics Canada data showing hospital staffing levels have only increased by 0.4% annually since 2020, despite the increasing burden of work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. (cupe.ca)
  • Ontario currently has about 1,000 private clinics, officially called 'independent health facilities,' which mostly carry out diagnostic procedures like ultrasounds and x-rays. (commondreams.org)
  • Do you want our public hospital services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and clinics? (opseu.org)
  • Centretown Veterinary Hospital is part of the VetStrategy group of clinics. (oavt.org)
  • Over the last two and a half weeks, hundreds of volunteers with the Ontario Health Coalition have opened public voting stations to collect opinions about the government's plan to cut services from local community hospitals and contract them out to high-volume private clinics. (ontariohealthcoalition.ca)
  • Balloting at over 100 voting stations and over 200 workplace votes resulted in 56,005 votes were cast in total of which 55,767 voted in favour of supporting local public hospitals and stopping the private clinics and 107 voted for private clinics. (ontariohealthcoalition.ca)
  • I don't see how the government can ignore more than 56,000 Ontarians who in two short weeks voted to stop the private clinics," said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition. (ontariohealthcoalition.ca)
  • If fewer hospital beds were occupied by ALC patients, those beds could be used to immediately admit patients from the emergency department, thus potentially decreasing emergency department overcrowding. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Hospitals can receive a special Category A1 Crisis designation when the hospital is experiencing overcapacity and there are many patients in the emergency department waiting for acute care beds. (healthydebate.ca)
  • An increasing percentage of Ontario hospital beds are being used for people who are waiting for care elsewhere. (hqontario.ca)
  • Institutions that provide complex medical services, such as organ transplantation, have larger requirements for diagnostic imaging, intensive care beds and surgical services than hospitals that do not provide these services. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Across Ontario, that equates to about 8,170 more hospital beds and 60,000 additional staff. (cupe.ca)
  • Based on the most recent CIHI data, Canada as a whole has 7.7% more hospital beds per capita than Ontario. (cupe.ca)
  • Masks became required in clinical-areas at Guelph General Hospital on Sept. 11 while remaining optional in hallways and meeting rooms. (ctvnews.ca)
  • 1 / 1 An artist's rendition of the proposed Panoramic Properties redevelopment of 700 Paris Street (the long-vacant Sudbury General Hospital). (northernontariobusiness.com)
  • St. Joseph's General Hospital in Elliot Lake, ON has started an energy and facility renewal program designed to reduce energy consumption and improve the overall patient care environment. (esmagazine.com)
  • As a Catholic health care organization, St. Joseph's General Hospital Elliot Lake's mission is to build on the legacy of our founders, The Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie, and continue the healing ministry of Jesus, serving all who come to us for care. (esmagazine.com)
  • Being able to fight climate change and improve energy efficiency will not only help reduce greenhouse emissions, but will also significantly improve patient comfort and enable the hospital to redirect savings into patient care," says Pierre Ozolins, CEO at St. Joseph's General Hospital Elliot Lake. (esmagazine.com)
  • Nineteen On tario hospitals have been recognized for their significant contributions to health research in Canada being named among Canada's Top 40 Research Hospitals. (oha.com)
  • Each year, Research Infosource Inc. releases a list of the Top 40 Research Hospitals in Canada , which is determined by total research spend by institute with investments for each organization coming primarily from philanthropy, government and industry. (oha.com)
  • Methods We completed a cost-effectiveness analysis based on a decision-analytic model to assess smokers hospitalised in Ontario, Canada for AMI, UA, HF, and COPD, their risk of continuing to smoke and the effects of quitting on re-hospitalisation and mortality over a 1-year period. (bmj.com)
  • The new hospital will be the most modern in Canada, an incredible state-of-the-art building that will be a catalyst for reshaping health care in our community and across the region. (cyberimpact.com)
  • An estimated 100,000 patients across Canada, including many patients in Ontario, had their surgeries delayed earlier this year according to reports from CBC News. (getleo.com)
  • programme in Ontario, Canada, uses bundled _ episode-based payments for patients with A designated care coordinator facilitated the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or provision of care across multiple health care congestive heart failure (CHF). (who.int)
  • Until the end of the 19th century, Canadian hospitals mainly cared for the indigent, with middle-class patients favouring medical care at home to care in the hospital. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since hospitals were still mandated to care for indigents, middle-class patients were charged more and more to subsidize care for the poor. (wikipedia.org)
  • He proposed instead, that the goal of the modern hospital was to provide the best diagnostic and therapeutic facilities available for a fee to patients who paid the full cost of their care. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Gagan, the objective was not to deny indigent patients access to hospital care, but to appeal to middle-class self-interest in order to spur statutory changes in government social policy that would explicitly recognize that hospitals were no longer charitable enterprises. (wikipedia.org)
  • The report, which was finalized in 1940, concluded that the trend of hospitals returning to their former role as custodial care facilities and municipalities' mounting expenditures on medical care, was a temporary condition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Christine Elliott's recent reference to 'private hospitals' was brief, but for veterans of health care battles, it stood out like a bleeding appendage. (commondreams.org)
  • But prying open the long-sealed door to permit the creation of new private hospitals would be a dramatic development, allowing hospitals--the centrepieces of our health-care system--to be governed by corporate boards that prioritize profits, as in the U.S. (commondreams.org)
  • Ontario is dropping the requirement for mandatory vaccination and testing policies in schools, long-term care homes and hospitals on Monday as the province reports 228 people in intensive care with COVID-19. (cbc.ca)
  • We heard that hospital staff care for patients in Ontario hospitals in a toxic environment of physical and sexual violence. (securitymagazine.com)
  • Health care staff felt unsafe talking about the issue of violence with the hospitals. (securitymagazine.com)
  • In no other setting are researchers as connected to patients or as involved in the delivery of care as in hospitals. (oha.com)
  • Ontario research hospitals have a strategically important role that cannot be fulfilled by any other research sector, bringing tremendous value to individuals and the health care system. (oha.com)
  • The term 'gridlock', used to describe heavy traffic on roads or highways, is being applied to our hospitals and health care system. (healthydebate.ca)
  • One of the biggest causes of gridlock is the inability to discharge patients who no longer need hospital care - patients who cannot go home because there are insufficient supports at home, or are waiting for a bed in a rehabilitation hospital, nursing home or other assisted living facility. (healthydebate.ca)
  • The shortage of diverse options that meet the needs of ALC patients outside the hospital (ranging from enhanced home care to supportive housing to rehabilitation to a nursing home) is the main reason ALC patients are not discharged from hospital as soon as they no longer need acute care. (healthydebate.ca)
  • ALC has gained prominence in Ontario as an issue that affects the whole health care system, including the emergency department. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Newspapers have reported on patients who were forced to vacate a hospital bed for a long-term care home they didn't choose. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Patients who are in hospital waiting for a bed in a specific chronic care institution may be asked to go to another institution in the region. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Section 15 of the " better tomorrow for Ontario act ," which is currently in second reading before the legislature, would amend the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to provide an exemption for the release of "information provided to, or records prepared by, a hospital committee for the purpose of assessing or evaluating the quality of health care and directly related programs and services provided by the hospital. (blogspot.com)
  • At Muskoka Animal Hospital, it is important to us that you and your pet feel like we are partners in the veterinary care of your furry family member. (2findlocal.com)
  • More than 1 in every 7 days (14.8%) that patients spent in Ontario hospitals in 2016/17 were spent waiting to go elsewhere, such as a long-term care home or rehabilitation facility. (hqontario.ca)
  • That's the highest rate in the last five years and the equivalent of more than 10 large hospitals being occupied every day by patients waiting for care elsewhere. (hqontario.ca)
  • Crowded hospital emergency departments across Ontario are under pressure to care for an increasing number of patients. (hqontario.ca)
  • We modelled the cost-effectiveness of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC), an intervention that includes in-hospital counselling, pharmacotherapy and posthospital follow-up, compared to usual care among smokers hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), unstable angina (UA), heart failure (HF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (bmj.com)
  • There will be resistance beginning with a large demonstration on October 23 at noon at Queen's Park, sponsored by the Ontario Health Coalition, as defenders of our public health care system travel from across Ontario to commit to protect it. (newswire.ca)
  • As hospitals across Ontario battle a surge in respiratory illnesses, ER closures, and long-wait times, one hospital is considering hiring unvaccinated health-care workers, who say they're eager to help ease staffing shortages. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Ontario Hospital Association tweeted Sunday that there were 218 adult patients with COVID-19-related critical illnesses in intensive care units, with 112 on ventilators. (ohscanada.com)
  • More than 100 in-patients at his hospitals were positive for COVID-19 as of Dec. 31 and 13 were in intensive care units. (ohscanada.com)
  • Hospital officials said the savings will pay for the infrastructure upgrades, and will be reinvested into patient care and other capital projects to better serve the community and surrounding area. (esmagazine.com)
  • Please be aware that dedicated parking for those attending the COHT Care Centre is available immediately adjacent to the clinic, which is off Volunteer Drive, located near the West Entrance to the hospital. (osmh.on.ca)
  • The Ottawa Hospital is thrilled to share we are one step closer to opening a world-class new hospital that will transform patient experience for the people we care for across the greater Ottawa and Eastern Ontario region, Western Quebec and Nunavut. (cyberimpact.com)
  • This is a tremendously exciting next milestone as we work to bring the future of health care to Ottawa and the more than a million people we care for," said Cameron Love, President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital. (cyberimpact.com)
  • The Ottawa Hospital is on track with plans to build a new hospital that will lead the way for the future of health care and transform patient experience for the people we serve across the greater Ottawa and Eastern Ontario region, Western Quebec and Nunavut. (cyberimpact.com)
  • The Ottawa Hospital is focused on enriching the quality of care for patients and their loved ones. (cyberimpact.com)
  • The new campus will increase capacity for us to respond to the pressures exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and allow us to advance care and provide a better patient experience during and after time in hospital. (cyberimpact.com)
  • While approval from the LHIN means that the day-to-day operating costs of the new MRI scanner will be covered by the government, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care requires hospitals to pay for the entire purchase and installation costs of MRI scanners themselves. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Specialized care is often regionalized within Ontario - that is, a hospital can develop expertise in a certain medical procedure and provide care for the entire region. (healthydebate.ca)
  • For example, Ontario has five children's hospitals that together provide highly specialized pediatric care for the entire province. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Capital projects are funded differently than a hospital's operating costs, which are the costs needed to operate the hospital such as providing medical care, medications or operating medical technology. (healthydebate.ca)
  • In Ontario, health care institutions need approval from their LHIN and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care before any major capital expenditures can be made. (healthydebate.ca)
  • There are so many patients as demand for hospital care continues to grow, and the workloads continue to intensify. (cupe.ca)
  • The province reported 38 resident cases and 51 staff cases in long-term care settings across Ontario. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Our hospital is equipped to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to care for your pets' complete health care needs. (hrahospital.com)
  • In a prospective study involving more than 4000 patients, the rates of index-visit hospital admissions, 30-day emergency department visits, and overall hospital admissions were similar among patients who initially used virtual care and those who visited the emergency department. (medscape.com)
  • Among patients who were referred to emergency care by a virtual provider, the length of stay in the hospital was 2.4 days longer, and these patients were more likely to have another virtual visit within 72 hours, 7 days, and 30 days, compared with patients who presented first to the emergency department. (medscape.com)
  • First implemented in a single hospital, the evidence-based care, thus reducing variation programme was expanded in 2015 to include across providers. (who.int)
  • hospital or receiving home care services. (who.int)
  • Stays in ICC 2.0 hospitals were associated with the hospital and the home care provider for reductions in the mean length of stay, rates of patients admitted for CHF or COPD for one readmission, visits to emergency departments episode of care beginning with acute hospital and deaths after 60 days relative to comparators. (who.int)
  • Key elements of the programme outcomes, such as hospital-acquired infections, gaps in follow up or functional decline, and _ The most important design elements included patients' experiences of care. (who.int)
  • Many participating hospitals had pre-existing integrated care coordinators were disputed by working relationships that facilitated programme pre-existing home care coordinators over implementation and sharing of resources and concerns that the new positions were taking data in real time. (who.int)
  • Rather, hospitals had become centers for the scientific treatment of diseases among all classes for a fair price in relation to the value of the product and the ability of the consumer to pay for non-profit treatment. (wikipedia.org)
  • New technology - laboratories, x-ray machines, hospital child birth, and antiseptic surgery - radically transformed hospitals in a short period of time up to the end of the First World War in 1918 and made them more acceptable to middle-class patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, these technologies were expensive and the allowance paid to hospitals by government to cover the costs of caring for indigent patients did not meet the actual costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • At that time, hospitals' total income from all sources of revenue - including paying patients, municipal and government subsidization, donor contributions - were only enough to maintain a static system, not an enterprise that was now improving during a time of medical progress. (wikipedia.org)
  • The government's insufficient subsidy for indigent patients transferred the fiscal burden to paying patients ("people of moderate means") and diverted any additional hospital income to cover the costs of non-paying patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a 1936 study (Ontario Survey of General Hospitals, 1940) undertaken by the Ontario Department of Health during the Depression, it was noted that lengths-of-stay (LOS) for the poor and indigent patients increased, while LOS decreased for paying patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among the recommendations was to police the hospitals to eliminate waste, inefficiency and long-stay indigent patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • After months of hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID patients, the backlog of delayed medical procedures is enormous--roughly a million surgeries and 20 million non-surgical procedures. (commondreams.org)
  • Mehra argues that private hospitals would undermine medicare by enabling well-to-do patients to gain faster access to treatment. (commondreams.org)
  • Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health, reported 228 patients in ICU, the same number reported Sunday, however it's important to note that not all hospitals report data on the weekends. (cbc.ca)
  • Hospital-based research occurs at the unique intersection of patients, clinicians, clinician-scientists and other researchers with linkages to universities, medical schools, specialized institutes and leading-edge biotech firms that develop and commercialize new treatments. (oha.com)
  • Why are ALC patients still in hospital? (healthydebate.ca)
  • ALC patients who remain in hospital do so because the supports they require outside of the hospital are not available. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Interestingly, a study from Montreal found that elderly patients who do not have children stayed in hospital twice as long as those who do have children. (healthydebate.ca)
  • There is thus considerable pressure on hospitals to discharge ALC patients. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Under these circumstances hospitals attempt to discharge ALC patients more quickly. (healthydebate.ca)
  • There have been cases in Ontario where patients have refused to go to a facility that was not on their list of top 3 choices, and indicated that they wished to remain in hospital. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Karen, an emergency physician and co-program medical director in Kingston, talks about the impact of emergency department overcrowding on hospital front-line staff and patients, and how the hospital has made improvements. (hqontario.ca)
  • Hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions increase the likelihood that patients will become smoke-free. (bmj.com)
  • His hospitals were experiencing an increase in patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. (ohscanada.com)
  • Emergency department volumes were simultaneously exceeding pre-pandemic volumes and seeing an increase in the number of patients arriving to the hospitals by ambulance on a daily basis. (ohscanada.com)
  • Has improved hand hygiene compliance reduced the risk of hospital-acquired infections among hospitalized patients in Ontario? (ahrq.gov)
  • DiDiodato G. Has improved hand hygiene compliance reduced the risk of hospital-acquired infections among hospitalized patients in Ontario? (ahrq.gov)
  • Hospital-acquired SARS-Cov-2 infections in patients: inevitable conditions or medical malpractice? (ahrq.gov)
  • We're thrilled to have the continued support of Infrastructure Ontario and look forward to the selection process for a design and development team that aligns with the vision for the project which is grounded in compassion, with patients and families at the core. (cyberimpact.com)
  • Smart in-room digital screens will keep patients connected with their loved ones who are unable to visit the hospital and there will be designated spaces for spiritual reflection, ceremony and healing. (cyberimpact.com)
  • The result is very high hospital bed occupancy, cancelled surgeries, and increased usage of unconventional spaces to treat patients with a 22% increase in "hallway healthcare" since Ford's election in 2018. (cupe.ca)
  • Among virtual patients, hospital stays were 1 day longer, and fewer than five deaths occurred, which was not significantly different between the groups. (medscape.com)
  • October 2015 and March 2018, 3010 patients electronic records across providers) ensured that voluntarily enrolled in ICC 2.0, representing 44% complete information was available to providers of all eligible patients admitted to these regardless of whether patients were in the hospitals for COPD and CHF. (who.int)
  • Patients from one centre in Australia (St. Vincent's Hospital (SVH), N = 516) and in Sweden (Trelleborg (TBG), N = 899) who underwent primary TKA between 2012 and 2013. (lu.se)
  • National Taiwan University Children's Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. (bvsalud.org)
  • The loss of these surgeries and diagnostic services - and the staff and funding that go with them - would be devastating to all local public hospitals and would gut the services that remain in many of the medium and small hospitals. (opseu.org)
  • Cheung, who treats adolescents and young adults with mood disorders, was recently recognized by the Ontario government with a Career Scientist award for her research into improving the delivery of mental health services to youth aged 16 and 24 with depression. (sunnybrook.ca)
  • We're opening up pediatric surgeries, cancer screenings, making sure that we can let independent health facilities operate private hospitals, all of those things that are possible,' said Elliott. (commondreams.org)
  • Ontario is currently suspending 8,000 to 10,000 surgeries every week due to the crisis. (ontarioliberal.ca)
  • Organizational culture: an important context for addressing and improving hospital to community patient discharge. (ahrq.gov)
  • Population health management and equity in healthcare access is a top priority for all Ontario Health Teams. (osmh.on.ca)
  • Ontario Liberals recently called for a number of constructive emergency measures to address the staffing shortage, and hope to build on that list using suggestions from the healthcare leaders in attendance. (ontarioliberal.ca)
  • Ontario hospitals and pediatric physicians are being told to "be alert" for symptoms of invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease (iGAS) after an "increasing trend" has been identified. (cp24.com)
  • Dr. Peter Smith discusses findings from a survey in late 2017 of over 1,000 workers in six Ontario hospitals on the incidence, reporting and consequences of workplace violence. (injuredworkersonline.org)
  • Confusing the matter is that the hospital has unvaccinated staff on duty because it did not fire those who declined vaccination. (ctvnews.ca)
  • However, based on the Ford government's current trajectory plans, staffing and capacity across Ontario will grow by less than 4% each (as opposed to 22%) over the same duration. (cupe.ca)
  • A few, such as the Shouldice Hernia Hospital, still operate today, providing services paid for by the province. (commondreams.org)
  • Using population-based surveys from Ontario, Cheung will identify which youth are receiving mental health services from their family doctors and factors associated with the use of those services, including socioeconomic background and education. (sunnybrook.ca)
  • The Ford government has brought in new legislation (Bill 60) to significantly expand the privatization of public hospital services. (opseu.org)
  • But with hospitals struggling to provide services, SBGHC appears the first in Ontario to publicly reconsider dropping the policy. (ctvnews.ca)
  • There is similar regionalization for many cancer services in Ontario. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Given their large catchment areas and specialized services, these hospitals will often have greater capital needs than other large urban hospitals. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Ontario provides public coverage for a limited scope of oral-health services. (bvsalud.org)
  • This includes surgical-dental services delivered in hospital under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) (e.g., dental and diagnostic consultations, reconstructive procedures, and cleft lip and cleft palate surgery), as well as some services that are covered through three publicly funded programs targeted to low-income children and families, and/or those with disabilities (Healthy Smiles Ontario, Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support program). (bvsalud.org)
  • According to the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) website, the OHA is a member association that represents approximately 154 public hospitals in Ontario. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Public Health Ontario, GAS becomes "invasive" when the bacteria enters the blood stream or deep tissue. (cp24.com)
  • The new amendments come just a few months after the government passed Bill 122, the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act , that provided broad public access to hospitals' administrative and policy-related information for the first time by subjecting them to the freedom of information act. (blogspot.com)
  • Proving also that a fundamental problem is that doctors do not believe the public will accurately or fairly judge hospitals that are honest about such matters. (blogspot.com)
  • The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a mass citizen-run referendum, with the goal of collecting a million votes across the province to stop the privatization of public hospitals. (opseu.org)
  • This despite the fact that Public Health Ontario reported 16,714 new infections on Sunday and a record 18,445 cases Saturday, noting both figures are considered underestimates. (ohscanada.com)
  • Establishment of lead agencies responsible for developing and coordinating strat- egies to address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, such as community response, public education and reporting databases, is recommended. (who.int)
  • Readers are encouraged to refer to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario website for the most up-to-date information with respect to privacy-related questions. (oha.com)
  • Letter of approval by the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario, mandated by the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 , of the practices and procedures implemented by the prescribed person to protect the privacy of individuals whose personal health information the prescribed person receives and to maintain the confidentiality of that information. (ipc.on.ca)
  • That's because private hospitals have been banned in the province since 1973, a year after OHIP was created. (commondreams.org)
  • However, individual organizations can keep their own requirements in place, and most hospitals have said they will continue their strict vaccine mandates. (cbc.ca)
  • In remarks at a press briefing in Ajax last month, with the premier standing directly behind her, Health Minister Christine Elliott mentioned 'private hospitals' as among the facilities that will be dealing with the backlog. (commondreams.org)
  • Hospital officials face a new challenge as they tackle a massive backlog of surgical procedures that were canceled or postponed after the outbreak of the pandemic. (getleo.com)
  • Consequently, we are once again facing immense pressures around hospital occupancy and staffing. (ohscanada.com)
  • Earlier this month, some eastern Ontario hospitals in Kingston and Ottawa also made moves towards masks . (ctvnews.ca)
  • It provides a clear picture of how workplace violence affected Ontario hospital staff physically, psychologically, interpersonally and financially. (securitymagazine.com)
  • Several Ontario hospitals are bringing back mask mandates for staff with COVID-19 cases on the rise once again - a clear sign the province has entered a new wave, an expert explains. (ctvnews.ca)
  • While we anticipate requiring clinical masking through the peak of the respiratory season, we intend for this to be a temporary measure," an internal memo sent to HHS hospital staff said on Monday. (ctvnews.ca)
  • In response to the story published by CTV News, an internal memo was sent to hospital leadership staff on Dec.10 from the Ontario Hospital Association that emphasized the use of vaccines. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The situation has become so serious that some hospital networks are reporting hundreds of their staff members have tested positive for the virus, are symptomatic or are in isolation after an exposure. (ohscanada.com)
  • The high number of unavailable staff comes as Smith has noticed fewer people entering hospital critically ill from the virus. (ohscanada.com)
  • He made the appeal as the new year began with at least 411 of his staff in isolation at home and numerous outbreaks across his hospital sites. (ohscanada.com)
  • The planning team is continuing to work with The Ottawa Hospital staff members, patient and family advisors, Indigenous partners and community members to develop and refine plans. (cyberimpact.com)
  • Hospitals have never been as full and staff have never been stretched as thin," added Del Duca. (ontarioliberal.ca)
  • Barb Farlow, a patient advocate in Ontario, mentions a debate going on in that province. (blogspot.com)
  • Citing the latest available data, The Hospital Crisis: No Capacity, No Plan, No End estimates that the province must improve bed capacity and staffing levels by 22% each to meaningfully address needs of an aging and growing population over the next four years. (cupe.ca)
  • The province reported that 49 per cent of the 1,106 people in hospital are primarily there due to COVID-19, while the remaining 51 per cent were admitted for other reasons but have now tested positive for the virus. (ctvnews.ca)
  • In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario Ministry of Health dedicated $4 million to a pilot program involving 14 VUC initiatives across the province. (medscape.com)
  • Apparently most of the Danish hospital managers who were present felt that one should be cautious in opening the door to more information that exposes the hospital's deficiencies. (blogspot.com)
  • We currently do not know what proportion of workplace violence incidents in Ontario are captured by each hospital's reporting system, and lack information on reasons for not reporting these incidents. (injuredworkersonline.org)
  • A view of the urban plaza at The Ottawa Hospital's new campus in the winter, from Carling Ave. A research tower is in the foreground, with the main hospital building behind. (cyberimpact.com)
  • Ontario Health Coalition launches referendum: Vote no to hospital privatization! (opseu.org)
  • Should you have any further inquiries, need clarification regarding any of the information presented here, or be interested in obtaining a copy of the Ontario Hospital Reciprocal Billing Manual, please contact the ministry via e-mail at [email protected] . (ontario.ca)
  • The numbers used in this story are found in the Ontario Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Daily Epidemiologic Summary. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Hospital emergency departments are facing an increasing challenge dealing with the opioid crisis. (hqontario.ca)
  • The health network, which runs four rural hospitals in Kincardine, Walkerton, Chesley, and Durham, said it "continues to experience significant health human resource challenges, which have resulted in Emergency Department closures at all four (hospitals). (ctvnews.ca)
  • Below is every emergency hospital in Ontario, stay safe! (beattiepethospital.com)
  • The rates of index visit hospital admissions (9.4% vs 8.7%), 30-day emergency department visits (17% vs 17.5%), and hospital admission (12.9% vs 11%) were similar between these groups. (medscape.com)
  • Source: "80 Years of Progress", the Ontario Hospital Association) Canadian historian David Gagan, in a section of the book "Health and Canadian society: sociological perspectives", discusses the rise of the modern hospital in Ontario from 1880 to 1950, from which the following information is derived. (wikipedia.org)
  • Elliott's statement attracted little media interest, but it certainly caught the attention of Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, who called it a 'bombshell. (commondreams.org)
  • Methods - Antibiotic purchasing data from IMS Health, previously demonstrated to correlate strongly with internal antibiotic dispensing data, were acquired for 129 Ontario hospitals from January to December 2014 and linked to patient day (PD) denominator data from administrative datasets. (ices.on.ca)
  • Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is a proud partner of the Couchiching Ontario Health Team . (osmh.on.ca)
  • In 2010, after a regional needs assessment for medical imaging, the Pembroke Regional Hospital was approved by its Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to purchase a new MRI scanner. (healthydebate.ca)
  • The Ontario Health Coalition is a network of over 400 grassroots community organizations representing virtually all areas of Ontario. (ontariohealthcoalition.ca)
  • The executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, Natalie Mehra, said, "People are waiting in pain, people are waiting in uncertainty. (getleo.com)
  • In the meantime, private carriers and not-for-profit organizations such as Blue Cross, which was organized by the Canadian Hospital Association, had begun to provide voluntary group hospitalization insurance coverage through employers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ontario hospitals are powerful engines of innovation and discovery with world-class scientific talent,' said Anthony Dale, President and CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA). (oha.com)
  • According to the Free Press , Matthews believes subjecting hospitals and doctors to greater scrutiny would prevent open dialogue about problems and how to fix them. (blogspot.com)
  • The Director of the country's largest hospital, Odense University Hospital, Jane Kraglund, believes that the hospitals already publish enough data about quality. (blogspot.com)
  • The crisis in our hospitals requires an all-hands-on-deck approach," stated Ontario Liberal Leader, Steven Del Duca. (ontarioliberal.ca)
  • Three people are dead, including a child, and nearly two dozen were being treated for injuries at a local hospital after a tornado tore through the middle of Tennessee on Saturday, officials said. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Hospital officials said the program will also substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions. (esmagazine.com)
  • Hospital variation in DDDs/1000 PDs was determined for overall antibiotic use, class-specific use and six practices of clinical or ecological significance. (ices.on.ca)
  • Medication reconciliation during hospitalization and in hospital-home interface: an observational retrospective study. (ahrq.gov)
  • I have been following for several days now the issue of bilingual hiring policies - especially in regards to the recent hot topic of the bilingual hiring policies of the Cornwall Community Hospital(CCH)that has captured so much of the Cornwall public's attention span as of late. (cornwallfreenews.com)