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  • The Sudbury Star Tue Jul 28 2015
  • The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is calling on the Ontario government to end what it calls a five-year funding freeze for Health Sciences North that is now in its fourth year. During a press conference in Sudbury on Monday, officials with the council said the freeze has hit Northern Ontario patients hard, and that it's time for Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault to speak out on the issue.
  • "Sudbury and Northern Ontario overall are more affected by hospital cutbacks, which are exacerbated by the challenges of geography and by poverty and health status. As one of only four Liberal MPPs from northern Ontario, Mr. Thibeault has a responsibility to advocate for increased funding for hospitals and to stand up for the patients and their families," the OCHU's Michael Hurley said in a release. The hospital union council recently updated a report to include information specifically on Northern Ontario, entitled Pushed Out of Northern Hospitals, Abandoned at Home: After Twenty Years of Budget Cuts, Ontario's Health System is Failing Patients. "The hospital is in year four of a five-year funding freeze, so to bring the hospitals up to where they would be able to function -it's a 5.8% increase," said said OCHU northeast Ontario vice-president Sharon Richer. "Pharmaceuticals is an issue where their price go up year after year, equipment costs for the hospital goes up, doctors' wages go up, so it does add a pressure to northern hospitals.
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  • "We are asking for the reopening of the chronic beds and alternative level of care beds which have been closed because of the funding freeze. We are asking that the provincial government stop the closure of acute care beds and to put funding back into the public sector and not the private sector," said Richer. According to Sudbury District Health Unit data, Sudbury/ Manitoulin has greater rates for obesity, arthritis, and high blood pressure and death than the Ontario average.
  • "They are decreasing the funding to the hospital and they are increasing the amount of funding they are putting into home care, but we have yet to see that," Richer said. "Many patients who are in hospital who need home care, their family is asked if they are able to perform any type of care for them and as soon as the family says yes, then that is when home care is very much decreased. "The patients in Northern Ontario, that need cleaning of wounds or changing of dressing, many of them have to go into a clinic, nobody is able to go into their homes so that definitely is an issue for the rest of the family members who have to book off time to get their loved ones into a clinic. "We are currently seeing no extra funding put into home care for these individuals and when they are on a list, the list is very significant, so when they are actually able to receive care it's sometimes too late."
  • Hurley said patients are suffering as hospital's try to balance their books. "What families experience when they are sent home is that they are asked 'is there anybody who can help with the patient,' and if you answer yes to that, then you don't actually get to access care because you don't need it, but if you need it, then you are put on a triage system and only the most urgent cases actually get access to home care -that's the sad reality," said Hurley "What people experience ... is that they are sent home by themselves, and often they are sent home when they are still acutely ill. They are sent home when they have needs like IVs, complex mobility issues which are far beyond the abilities of their aged spouses to deal with -that's what we do we just send them home and this then becomes individualized and becomes an individual problem of care."
  • Dan Lessard, media and public relations officer for Health Sciences North, said the freeze on the hospital's budget has had little to no effect on the organizations ability to treat patients. "One of the things that we have done, recognizing that hospital base budgets have been relatively static for the past four years, is we have really launched into an exercise of trying to find as many efficiencies as we can so that we get more use out of the dollars that we already have," said Lessard.
  • Lessard said that creating efficiencies means anything from eliminating vacancies for positions that have had little to no applicants, reducing overtime through better scheduling, and reorganizing the way supplies are ordered and managed. "I think we have been pretty good at maintaining our services so what we have really tried to do is look at areas where we can be more efficient and smarter in the way we do things so that we are not causing patient services to suffer," Lessard said.
  • "That's the last thing we want to do, that's the last thing our patients want us to do, certainly the last thing the community wants us to do is to put in place measures that is going to impact patient care. "I think we have done a pretty good job at maintaining our services and maintaining the quality of care that we are giving patients -it's not easy, it is challenging and demanding but we have very very smart people here working very hard to make that happen." Thibeault, the Sudbury MPP, did not return phone calls asking for comment.
  • • Sharon Richer, left, northeast Ontario vice-president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), and Michael Hurley, president of OCHU, hold a press conference in Sudbury on Monday.
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  • Workers to file grievances as union says contract has been breached
  • Oct 14, 2016
  • Health Sciences North has switched its laundry services from a Sudbury company to one in Hamilton, putting 36 people out of work.
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  • Dozens of laundry workers in Sudbury have been handed layoff notices. All 36 employees are with Sudbury Hospital Services, a local business that does laundry for Health Sciences North. The slated layoffs come as the hospital is opting instead to do business with a company called Mohawk Shared Services in Hamilton. According to Joe Pilon, the hospital's chief operating officer, Health Sciences North expects to save $500,000 per year.
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Funding for Sudbury's hospital 'inadequate,' group says - Sudbury - CBC News - 0 views

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  • Report finds $56.7 million shortfall for a hospital like Sudbury's based on population size
  • Aug 10, 2016
  • Ontario Council of Hospital Unions president, Michael Hurley (left), and secretary-treasurer, Sharon Richer (right), are calling on the provincial government to increase hospital funding.
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  • Sudbury's hospital is short-staffed and has a high patient readmission rate because of under-funding from the provincial government, according to a report released by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.  "There's incredible pressure to clear the beds because there's another person who needs that bed," council president Michael Hurley said. "That's the reality. We don't have enough capacity here in Sudbury."
  • 178 more nurses, 529 more staff needed at Sudbury hospital 
  • Ontario's choice where to spend health dollars
  • Ontario's Ministry of Health countered the OCHU's claim by referencing another union's report — the Service Employees International Union  — that said Ontario and Quebec lead the country in spending health dollars "wisely and efficiently."
  • Sudbury hospital working on reducing patient readmissions
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  • Oct 25, 2016
  • With stubbornly high unemployment, Sudbury can’t afford any more job loss, say laid off Sudbury Hospital Services laundry workers. Following a brief meeting with Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault at a downtown coffee shop last weekend, the hospital laundry staff renewed their appeal for him to intervene and keep jobs local. They will be taking their call for help to keep their hospital laundry jobs, directly to Thibeault’s doorstep on Wednesday, November 2 with a rally at the Sudbury MPP’s area office.
Govind Rao

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  • NORTH BAY, ON – The ripple effect of significant new cuts to hospital patient care and beds, including to mental health supports in North Bay, will be felt in Sudbury and other parts of north eastern Ontario, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). 
  • Last week North Bay Regional Health Centre announced the latest in a round of service and bed cuts, that the hospital says are needed to make up for a provincial funding shortfall of $30 million. The severe and ongoing service reductions include the closure of eight mental health beds.
  • Following a round of service cuts and bed closures announced last May (2014), the North Bay hospital administration told media that: “The hospital’s mental health services operates in-patient beds in both North Bay and Sudbury… And…the proposed bed closures will have an impact in Sudbury, although the extent has not yet been determined.” (North Bay Nugget, Friday May 9, 2014)
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Man with PTSD moves to Sudbury for mental health treatment - Sudbury - CBC News - 0 views

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  • Lack of support in remote areas for victims of abuse
  • Oct 27, 2015
  • A small-town Ontario man decided to make Sudbury his home after not being able to find adequate support for his mental health issues where he lived. 
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  • Stephen Budd has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It took years of going back and forth with doctors to get the diagnosis. He was abused as a child, leaving him to cope with mental and emotional issues. 
  • The 52-year-old lives with his golden Labrador retriever in a cluttered and crowded bachelor apartment. He works as a wood carver, making furniture when he can. He says his job earns him a reasonable income when he is working, but admits he has a hard time staying focused. 
  • Long waits in remote areas
Govind Rao

Nurses protest cuts ; Hospital underfunded, they say - Infomart - 0 views

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  • The Sudbury Star Fri Oct 23 2015
  • Registered practical nurses blaming provincial government health-care cuts for a change in their status at Health Sciences North converged on the office of Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault on Thursday to protest government underfunding. RPNs at HSN say their positions were eliminated and they were transferred to the renal program as renal aides, where they are expected to practise on the dialysis unit like nurses, but their status and pay has been downgraded, according to representatives at CUPE Local 1623. "It's a multi-purpose rally today," said Dave Shelefontiuk, president of CUPE Local 1623. "The immediate purpose is over the action the hospital has recently done, which is to reassign 16 RPNs back to the renal (program), freeze their wages and they're no longer going to be used as nursing staff, but we all hear every week there's a nursing shortage at Health Sciences North and they voluntarily took 16 very experienced nurses out of the system and we don't think that's correct. We think that's degrading to these nurses. They went to school, they're professional nurses, they have the skills and now they're not being allowed to use those skills."
  • The other purpose of the rally, Shelefontiuk said, was to highlight workers' struggles under the current funding model. "We're over capacity now; the emerg has been just jam-packed," Shelefontiuk said. "Everybody who provides direct patient care is overworked, they're stressed out, and the only thing we can see to correct this problem is if Mr. Thibeault and Premier (Kathleen) Wynne realize that the North East LHIN (Local Health Integration Network) needs to be funded differently from the other LHINs.
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  • "People who come to Health Sciences North come from a lot of different areas. I can't jump on the subway and go down to the hospital to make my appointments. Some people come from Blind River, some come from Timmins, we're a referral hospital that's not funded properly and we can't provide the care we expect to be able to provide. We're very proud of what we do and people are struggling. People are going home sick. They're happy to get through a day, not happy to go to work and provide the care they want to provide. We don't think that's proper." According to CUPE, the hospital has cut beds, services and staff because of a five-year funding freeze imposed by the provincial Liberal government.
  • The union cited an Auditor General's report which estimated hospitals' costs increase by 5.8% annually, rising faster than inflation, because of the soaring costs of drugs provided free to inpatients and medical technologies, among other factors. Thibeault was at Queen's Park in Toronto on Thursday, but forwarded a statement through his communications staff. "I understand that Health Sciences North has made the decision to make changes in its nephrology department, shifting to a model of RNs working alongside renal aides, rather than RPNs," Thibeault said. "I have been assured by officials at Health Sciences North that this decision was made based on surveys of other nephrology departments in Ontario working successfully under similar models, and will not change the terms or quality of patient care.
  • "I understand that RPNs who choose to stay in nephrology will be re-assigned as renal aides, while those interested in pursuing RPN opportunities in other departments will be offered any additional training necessary. "I have been assured by officials at HSN that no layoffs are anticipated, and that vacancies for RPN positions in other departments are expected. I recognize, as does our government, that nurses are the backbone of our health-care system, and I will continue to advocate for health-care practitioners and patients in Sudbury."
  • The move to use renal aides alongside registered nurses, rather than the previous model of RPNs alongside RNs, was made to find efficiencies without affecting patient care, HSN spokesperson Dan Lessard said in a statement. "Nothing changes from a patient's standpoint, in terms of the care provided or quality of care," Lessard said. "The RNs assigned to the patient still oversee the process and their care."
  • The duties of the renal aide will include preparing, starting, and monitoring the dialysis machines, Lessard said. They'll also help transfer patients around the unit and help them with such things as going to the bathroom. "RPNs were doing these duties before, but these duties don't encompass the full scope of practice for RPNs. "For the RPNs affected by this, we're offered them an opportunity to let us know if they would be interested in receiving additional training in order to qualify for other RPN positions within HSN, where they would be working more fully within an RPN's scope of practice." Lessard confirmed that no layoffs are expected.
  • "In terms of their salaries, they don't get a pay cut," Lessard said. "They will have their salaries red-circled. That means their salaries will remain the same until the pay scale for renal aides catches up to their present salaries, and at that point they will follow the normal progression up the salary grid, but as renal aides, not RPNs." ben.leeson@sunmedia.ca Twitter: @ben_leeson
  • Registered practical nurses from Health Sciences North and their supporters hold a rally outside Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault's office in Sudbury on Thursday.
Doug Allan

Frail elderly strategy yielding results ; HEALTH CARE: Number of ALC patients tying up ... - 2 views

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Sudbury ALC

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  • A decade of hospital and community service employees working to find better ways to care for the elderly has cut in half the number of beds at Health Sciences North filled with frail elderly seniors. The number of alternate level of care patients at the city's acute hospital, Ramsey Lake Health Centre, has fallen from 134 in September 2012 to 69 on March 21 -- and as low as 63 a week or so later.
  • If people in the community are suffering because of HSN's focus on moving the elderly out of hospital beds back into the community, Boyles isn't hearing about them.
  • That decrease comes despite the fact 30 interim beds were closed in January at the former Memorial site, now known as the Sudbury Outpatient Centre.
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  • Working together to search out every opportunity to get patients home is working, he said.
  • At Tuesday's meeting, the HSN board officially approved a seniors' strategy for the hospital that will make it more senior-friendly -- based largely on recommendations of a province-wide report by Dr. Samir K. Sinha, director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto.
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    Sudbury claims to have cut ALC in half.
Govind Rao

Hefty bill worries senior ; Garson woman says she can't afford $6,000 air ambulance rid... - 0 views

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  • The Sudbury Star Fri Oct 16 2015
  • A bill of almost $6,400 for an air ambulance transfer from one Alberta hospital to another is keeping a 77-year-old Garson grandmother awake at night. Jean Wright simply cannot afford to pay it. The last thing Wright thought she had to worry about when she returned from Alberta after an unexpected hospital stay was a bill for an air ambulance transfer, ordered by a physician.
  • It was a small facility and, while staff treated her well, a doctor there decided the elderly woman should be transferred to a larger hospital in Edmonton for more complex treatment. She was to be taken by land ambulance, but the vehicle didn't have a connection for the medical support she needed for the two-hour journey. When the doctor ordered an air ambulance, Wright and her daughters asked if the cost of the flight would be covered by provincial health insurance and they were told it would be. Wright, who also has kidney problems, was so ill in Vermillion, she didn't know where she was when she was at the small hospital. When the doctor said he was going to transfer her to "the city," she asked: "Where's the city?" Wright spent seven days in an Edmonton hospital being treated for fluid around her heart, a condition similar to congestive heart failure. Her daughters drove back to Sudbury while she was in hospital. Wright has a son who lives in Edmonton and she stayed with him for several days after being released from hospital before flying home.
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  • Wright, who has diabetes and underwent a triple heart bypass three years ago, was in good health when she and two daughters drove to Vancouver and then Squamish, B.C., in August for a family wedding. On the return trip, the trio stopped for the night at a motel in a small town of fewer than 4,000 people called Vermillion, about 200 kilometres east of Edmonton. There, Wright took ill. She couldn't breathe and was having a difficult time walking, so her daughters rushed her to the local hospital.
  • When she got back to Garson, she and her husband, Jim, hitched up their trailer and went camping for two weeks. They had a wonderful time, but when they returned, there were two envelopes in the couple's mail box. One was a bill for several hundred dollars for examinations by three different doctors in Alberta. The other was a whopping $6,380 bill from an air ambulance company called STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society). Quite fittingly, Jean Wright was shocked when she opened the envelope, because she thought the flight was covered, she said in an interview at her Garson home.
  • Wright and her daughters had heard about the Alberta woman who was visiting family near Timmins when she went into early labour and had to be air-lifted to Sudbury. That woman was billed about $10,000 by Ontario's air ambulance service. After Amy Savill went public with her story, the Alberta and Ontario governments agreed to split the bill for the air ambulance. When Wright received her bill, she called one of her daughters and said the younger woman "almost fainted" when she heard the amount. Wright thought: "If I have to pay this bill, they're going to wait a long time. I don't have that kind of money." She is a retired school bus driver and her husband an Inco pensioner.
  • Wright visited the constituency office of her MPP, Nickel Belt New democrat France Gelinas, who is also her party's critic for Health and Long-Term Care. Gelinas wrote Health Minister dr. Eric Hoskins on Oct. 8, saying provincial governments should "pay the bill as a hospital emergency service when a patient is forced to take air or ground ambulances to the nearest hospital for the necessary emergency treatment. "Hospital and physician services are supposed to be free to all Canadians," wrote Gelinas. The Ontario Legislature is recessed this week and Gelinas hasn't received a reply from Hoskins, she said Thursday. She intends to speak with Hoskins about it Tuesday when the Legislature resumes sitting.
  • Wright contacted the Edmonton hospital about the smaller bill for doctors' services she received and was told to discard it. She hasn't contacted STARS, but Gelinas said her constituency staff will stay on the case. Gelinas wants Ontario's health minister to establish a policy in which air ambulance transportation for Ontarians out of province is paid by government if ordered by a physician. If Ontarians travelling outside the province require air ambulance transportation, and know they have to pay for it, many will not get the treatment they need because of that cost, said Gelinas.
  • "This is wrong," said Gelinas of someone like Wright being billed for transportation to get emergency care. The basic tenet of medicare is that all Canadians have access to good health care "no matter the thickness of their wallets. Gelinas, Nickel Belt federal NdP candidate Claude Gravelle and Sudbury federal NdP hopeful Paul Loewenberg have scheduled a news conference for Friday at 11 a.m. in front of Health Sciences North to talk about how the NdP health plan will improve health-care delivery for people in Northern Ontario.
  • Jean Wright shows off an invoice for more than $6,000 for an Alberta air ambulance ride on Thursday. Wright required medical care involving an air ambulance while on vacation in Alberta.
Govind Rao

Nursing report to be released in Sudbury | Sudbury Star - 0 views

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  • May 7, 2015
  • A report from a task force on ways to recruit nurses in rural, remote and northern areas of Ontario will be released in Sudbury next week during Nursing Week. The task force was co-chaired by two Sudburians, David McNeil, vice-president of patient services and clinical transformation, and chief nursing executive at Health Sciences North, and Louise Paquette, chief executive officer of the North East Local Health Integration Network. McNeil is a former president of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, which struck the task force. He and Paquette spent a year examining the nursing workforce and challenges facing communities looking to attract and retain an adequate supply of nurses.
Govind Rao

Sudbury hospital teams up with health centres to help aboriginal patients - Sudbury - C... - 0 views

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  • New health care helpers part of shift to deliver more services in the community and outside of institutions
  • Aug 18, 2015
  • More aboriginal patients in the northeast are getting help to figure out the healthcare system. This spring, Health Sciences North created a formal process to refer patients to patient navigators at three aboriginal health centres. The positions have been in existence for the last few years, but because there was no formal process, many patients weren't receiving help. Aboriginal patient navigators help patients access better care by helping with things such as appointments and paperwork.
Govind Rao

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  • The Sudbury Star Mon Aug 31 2015
  • The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions has set up a special hotline to record the experience of parents forced to travel in Northern Ontario in order to give birth safely. Earlier this month, an Alberta woman, Amy Savill, was forced to medevac from Timmins to Sudbury in order to safely give birth after she went into labour two months prematurely. Baby Amelia was born at 30 weeks, wei ghing 3 pounds and 1 ounce. Savill was asked initially asked to pay the costs of the air transfer, which could reach $30,000. However, since then, the Ontario and Alberta governments have said they will split the costs.
  • Amy Savill, a single mother, now has to bring her daughter home. Health Sciences North in Sudbury has been looking after Baby Amelia, but a medical flight from Sudbury to Alberta will cost as much as $40,000. An online fundraising campaign was started at CanadaHelp.organd more than $22,000 had been raised five hours before the campaign was to expire on Sunday.
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  • The hospital council, however, blames the Ontario government for the situation. "The Ontario government is aggressively cutting and centralizing obstetric services," Sharon Richer, north-east Vice-president for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE, said in a release. "Increasingly these cuts are forcing young families in the north to travel - and to absorb the risks and the costs of that travel -in order to safely give birth. "Because childbirth is unpredictable, mothers are routinely being told they must travel from communities like Geraldton, to cities like Thunder Bay, where they must stay for two weeks prior to their delivery. The northern travel grant gives them $100 towards accommodation that actually costs $1,500 or more. "Amy Savill's story plays out on a more modest scale many times every day in the north," Richer said. Judy Bain, northwest Ontario Vice-president for OCHU, called the Northern Health Travel Grant inadequate.
  • "We need to remember that young families, especially single parent ones, simply do not have the resources to absorb such expenses," she said. "People in southern Ontario would be shocked to know that birthing services are being cut in communities as large as Kenora in Northern Ontario. "Essentially, the provincial government is asking northerners to cover the costs of having a child safely. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions said new and expecting parents can call the hotline to tell their stories of childbirth and the travel-related costs they have been forced to absorb. The hotline number is 1-888-599-0770.
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  • March 30, 2015
  • SUDBURY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 30, 2015) - Universal health care supporters from Sudbury will be among those from other northern Ontario communities, heading to North Bay tomorrow for a national health care day of action rally and a special mail delivery to Conservative MP Jay Aspin's North Bay. March 31 is a national day of action to save public health care and similar rallies are happening at MPs' offices across Canada.
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  • Oct 17, 2016
  • Sudbury laundry workers who received layoff notices last week and local jobs, “are collateral damage” of the Ontario Liberals’ continuing plan to underfund hospitals, says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). Hurley will be among others from the community out to support the laundry workers at a rally tomorrow (Tuesday) October 18, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. in front Sudbury Hospital Services, 363 York Street.
Doug Allan

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Sudbury cuts doctors

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  • The level of frustration among surgeons in Sudbury is rising, threatening to reach the point it was at five years ago when they ran advertisements featuring patients complaining about long wait times for medical procedures, says Dr. Peter Zalan.
  • Zalan called on the board to "participate in advocacy" on behalf of patients and said he will be asking doctors to do so as well. The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is intent on "downsizing" hospitals, said Zalan, referring to the recent provincial budget.
  • Many surgeons have told him "they are embarrassed to meet new patients in the office since they cannot offer them timely help."
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  • Emergency and cancer surgeries will always get priority, said Zalan, "but if you're just having pain," you may have to wait months for surgery, he said after the meeting.
  • Zalan doesn't disagree hospitals need to be downsized, but called it "curious" the province isn't directing hospitals on what services to cut.
  • "They give no directions on what to downsize," said Zalan. "Just, 'suck it up.' "
  • That leaves the province's 149 hospitals each trying to decide on their own what programs and services to chop. "That's chaos," said Zalan. "You want a system."
  • He wants the province to tell hospitals what to get rid of and to "tell the public what not to expect any more."
  • Doug Allan on 15 May 13
     
    More doctors are complaining about cuts.  Zallan says the province is giving no direction about what to cuts and what will no longer be provided.
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  • Oct 21, 2016
  • With increasing scrutiny on the outcome of shared hospital services, questions are being raised about the “integrity of the process” used in awarding the hospital laundry contract to an out-of-Sudbury provider
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  • Nov 1, 2016
  • Laid off hospital laundry workers will ask at Wednesday 4 p.m. Sudbury rally. With Sudbury’s unemployment rate high, laid off hospital laundry workers are asking Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault “why his government is laying them off and moving their jobs to Hamilton” at a rally Wednesday November 2, 2016 at 4 p.m. at the MPP’s Sudbury office 555 Barry Downe Road.
Govind Rao

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  • Pushed out of hospital, abandoned at home, elderly and frail neglected; hotline report finds
  • Following decades of cuts to hospitals, sick, frail Ontarians from Sudbury to Windsor to Cornwall, are being pushed out of hospital while acutely ill. Hardest hit are the elderly who are not getting the rehabilitative therapies and restorative and convalescent care they need, a report to be released in Sudbury on February 25, 2014, has found. 
  • The study Pushed Out of Hospital, Abandoned at Home: After Twenty Years of Budget Cuts, Ontario's Health System is Failing Patients, chronicles the qualitative experiences of hundreds of patients and their families from across Ontario, who called a 1-800 patient hotline. The report will be released Wednesday February 25th at 10:00 a.m. at a media conference at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2200 Long Lake Road, Sudbury.
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  • The Sudbury Star Thu Dec 12 2013
  • Ninety-six personal support workers from Sudbury are among 4,500 members of SEIU Healthcare who walked off the job Wednesday seeking better wages, increased mileage rates, pension contributions and more pay for travel time. About 4,000 of the PSWs are employed by Red Cross Care Partners, a for-profit company created last year when Canadian Red Cross and Care Partners merged. Canadian Red Cross still employs about 300 PSWs as well. Louise Leeworthy, chief steward representing Sudbury PSWs, said taking to picket lines instead of caring for clients "does not go easy for us ... we wear our heart on our sleeves.
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  • SUDBURY, Ont. – Front line staff hospital staff say they are poised to mobilize the community against a new round of cuts to nursing care at the St. Joseph’s Continuing Care Centre. Their community mobilizing effort kicks off tomorrow Friday June 6 with a noon time rally at St. Joseph’s, 1140 South Bay Road.
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