Still Waiting: An Assessment of Ontario's Home Care System After Two Decades of Restructuring A new report by the Ontario Health Coalition on the state of Ontario's home care system finds more than 10,000 people on wait lists for services and reveals that major problems reported by Ontario's Auditor Generals since 1998 are still not resolved. As a result, Ontario’s home care system is plagued by inadequate services, inequitable access to care and poor oversight. The report also reveals that 18,500 hospital beds have been closed since 1990 and other hospital services such as outpatient rehabilitation are being cut across Ontario. While patients are being downloaded from hospitals, too often there are inadequate services in the community.
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.
"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.
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.
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).
