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HOMECARE REPORTS

  • Home Care: Change We Need - Report on the Ontario Health Coalition’s Home Care Hearings
    A new independent report on Ontario’s home care sector by Patricia Baranek, Carol Kushner and the late Marion Dewar. An non-partisan independent review of the current research along with input received through 78 presentations and 69 written submissions to five public hearings held across Ontario in June 2008. The report makes 20 recommendations to reform home care and provide urgently needed change.
          Media Release      Summary      Full Report     (November 17, 2008)
  • Market Competition in Ontario's Homecare: Lessons and Consequences
          Summary (PDF)       Full Report (PDF) (March 31, 2005)

  • "I Really Can't Afford to Stay in Homecare"
    A Follow-Up Study of Hamilton Home Support Workers Laid Off in 2002 by several McMaster University researchers.
          PDF (August 2003)

  • Social Cohesion and Privatization in Canadian Healthcare
    A report by Prof. Hugh Armstrong of Carleton University 's School of Social Work originally published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society 16:2 (December 2001), pp. 65-81.
          PDF (December 2001)

  • Dip and Skip
    A Supplement to the June 2001 Report on Homecare Reform in Ontario.
          PDF (November 2001)

  • Secrets in the House
    Homecare Reform in Ontario, 1997-2000.
          HTML (November 2001)

  • Tipping The Balance: Healthcare Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario
    Report for the OHC by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
          Summary (titled "Public Pain, Private Gain") (PDF)       Full Report (PDF) (Summer 2000)

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    HOMECARE FACT SHEETS

  • The loss of 100 years of non-profit home nursing in Hamilton
          Briefing Note (PDF)      Information flyer (PDF) (January 23, 2008)

  • OHC Homecare Policy Statement
          HTML (December 2004)

  • Homecare: A Closer Look
          PDF (November 2004)

  • Key Concerns, Bill 130 and Liberal Promises
          HTML (November 2003)

  • The End of 100 Years of Non-Profit Home Nursing?
          HTML (June 2003)

  • Women as Workers in the Healthcare System
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Privatization of Medicare and Women
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Health Restructuring and Women's Access to Medicare
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Homecare and Women
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Homecare Fact Sheet #2
          HTML (May 1999)

  • Homecare Fact Sheet #1
          HTML (January 1999)

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    HOMECARE MEDIA RELEASES

  • OHC Applauds Temporary Respite for Hamilton Non-Profit Homecare
    OHC calls for complete end to competitive bidding. Protests are scheduled for Guelph (Jan 24) and Sudbury (Jan 25).
          January 23 media release (PDF)      Briefing Note      Information flyer (January 23, 2008)

  • Homecare Review Opportunity to Scrap Privatization
          HTML (October 10, 2004)

  • Citing Unacceptable Care Standards Group Launches Nursing Homes & Homecare Campaign
          HTML (April 26, 2004)

  • End 'Dip and Skip' Homecare Reform: OHC Slams Healthcare Censorship Bill
          HTML (November 22, 2001)

  • Government Guilty of Rank Hypocrisy Charges Health Watchdog: OHC Releases Report Assailing Tory Homecare Reform
          HTML (June 4, 2001)

  • Witmer's Homecare Policies Forcing Privatization At All Costs, Even If It Costs More
          HTML (January 24, 2001)

  • OHC Charges Abuse of Process With Respect to New Homecare Regulation
          HTML (August 11, 1999)

  • OHC To Hold Media Conference Regarding New Homecare Regulations
          HTML (August 9, 1999)

  • Organizations Announce Public Release of Government's Draft Policies For Homecare
          HTML (March 30, 1999)


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    FROM THE PULSE

  • Conservatives Yank Community Control of Homecare
          HTML (January 2002)

  • Long Term Care? Community Care? Homecare? Why Should I Care About Any of Them?
    By Ethel Meade.
          HTML (January 2002)

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