Category: Health and COVID-19

Home Health and COVID-19

Hospital workers to vote on potential ‘political protest’ over emergency powers bill

The action could include a work stoppage or interruption. ...

Health teams and patients breathing ‘sigh of relief’ as some hospitals ramp up scheduled surgeries

Ontario Health data shows that 154,097 fewer surgeries were performed during 99 days of the pandemic compared to a year prior. ...

Report highlights ways hospitals can ‘welcome back’ caregivers during COVID-19

The report encourages hospitals to revisit policies on family presence with input from patients, families and caregivers. ...

Residents of crowded Ontario nursing homes twice as likely to die of COVID-19, study finds

Research indicates for-profit homes have had higher rates of COVID-19 deaths because many failed to upgrade their facilities. ...

All sides call for system change as committee goes clause-by-clause through home-care bill

Stakeholders disagreed on almost everything — except for the conviction that the current system needs to change. ...

Rate of COVID-19 three times higher in Ontario’s non-white neighbourhoods: Public Health Ontario

The report comes as public health experts have criticized the province for failing to collect race-based information about individual COVID-19 cases. ...

Toronto calls on Ford government to implement ‘efficient system’ for transferring COVID-19 information, ‘clear’ testing strategy

Toronto's Board of Health and chief medical officer are calling on the province to shore up two weaknesses in its pandemic response. ...

Ford vows to fix 'antiquated' systems holding back Ontario's COVID-19 response

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