The media is applauding Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins this week for promising greater transparency around private clinic inspections that had previously been kept secret by Toronto Public Health and…
The Ontario Hospital Association must be finally feeling the pinch of fiscal restraint and so-called “funding reforms” that have worked against their bottom line for at least the past four…
When Health Minister Deb Matthews spoke at the closing of this year’s Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) HealthAchieve, the hall was two-thirds empty. Only two days before there was standing room…
At this year’s Ontario Hospital Association HealthAchieve the organizers hired a graphic artist to illustrate many of the sessions. After each session, participants were invited to look at the graphic…
“Mental health is set aside as that other kind of health care we don’t want to talk about.” – Asante Haughton, one of three youth featured in the Ontario Shores…
Last week’s provincial budget was accompanied by an uncharacteristic snippy release from the Ontario Hospital Association expressing disappointment. While OHA CEO Pat Campbell says there are a few positive initiatives…
The Ontario Hospital Association’s HealthAchieve is one of the major health care conferences on our annual calendar. Here are 10 revealing moments from this year’s three-day event: 1. Metaphors really…
Health Minister Deb Matthews says she is not seeking the Ontario Liberal leadership. Matthews made the formal announcement at the Ontario Hospital Association HealthAchieve this morning, ending weeks of speculation.…
Speakers at this week’s Ontario Hospital Association HealthAchieve say it’s important to transform health care, not cut it. Don Berwick, former Administrator for U.S. Medicare and Medicaid Services, told the…
Asking how the ratio of management to front line staff has changed at a public hospital seemed like a straight-forward question. In this era of obsession with hyper-efficiency, you’d think…
Ontario hospitals could be paying a big price for not engaging their employees. A new study from the Ontario Hospital Association suggests that “the quality of the work environment for…
The Ontario Hospital Association is disappointed again. This week Dwight Duncan announced the government’s intention to cap salaries for new employees in the broader public sector – including hospitals –…
It seems there are two choices with regards to executive compensation. The first is to simply place executives on salary and expect them to do the job they get paid…
In March Deb Matthews told the media that 36 hospitals will have their budgets cut by as much as three per cent when this year’s new hospital funding formula rolls…
