Union Analysis Warns of Hospital Woes Ahead without Jacked-up Funding

Union analysis warns of hospital woes ahead without jacked-up funding

A national union is sounding the alarm that Ontario hospitals – including London's – are facing a growing capacity crisis due to what it believes is underfunding.

The funds hospitals use to pay day-to-day bills have plummeted by $2.2 billion since 2020, says new report

Rapidly increasing costs, austerity funding policies and record 1,300 job cuts push Ontario’s hospitals beyond the brink TORONTO — Ontario’s hospital crisis has hit a boiling point, says new report released today by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing the latest data, Pushed over the brink: the escalating assault on Ontario’s hospitals highlights […]

“Pushed over the brink”: new research report to reveal full impact of austerity agenda on mounting Ontario hospital crisis as funds available for day-to-day bills plummet across the province

Media conference in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, August 5 to reveal full findingsNIAGARA FALLS, ON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new research report on Ontario’s hospital crisis highlights the destabilization of the sector through chronic underfunding and increasing privatization of healthcare services. These tactics are introducing additional strains on an already starving system and deepening the current government’s problems. more... The post “Pushed ov…