• Putting Patients at Risk: Interviews with Ontario Paramedics on the Consequences of Closing Local Emergency Departments
  A new report, based on interviews with 50 paramedics across Ontario, on what the provincial government’s planned emergency room closures would mean for patient care in communities across the province. The report will address the following questions:
• What do paramedics think of the Ontario government’s plan to close small and rural hospital emergency rooms?
• Can paramedics really replace hospital emergency rooms?
• What are the implications for patients and customers of ambulance services?       MEDIA RELEASE       SUMMARY       FULL REPORT           (June 18, 2009)
  
• Briefing Note on Ontario’s Hospital Cuts and Restructuring 2008/2009
  A major round of hospital restructuring and cuts is underway in every health region in the province causing major layoffs, privatization and threaten local Emergency Rooms, birthing facilities and hospital beds. This new briefing note by the Ontario Health Coalition examines the cuts region by region. This year and next, provincial budget levels for hospital global budgets are insufficient to meet hospital rates of inflation and population growth. Cabinet-appointed Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) are reviewing services in hospitals with deficits, and at the behest of the provincial government, are forcing hospitals to eliminate their deficits through drastic cuts.       MEDIA RELEASE      BRIEFING NOTE     (December 2, 2008)
  
  
• Briefing Note on the Ontario Hospital Association/Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Report on Core Services in Small, Rural and Remote Hospitals
  Review and analysis of the report by a Joint Policy and Planning Committee (JPPC) of the MOHLTC and the OHA.       BRIEFING NOTE     (June 29, 2007)
  
  
• OHC's Submission to the SARS Commission
  Contains our analysis of the Ontario SARS break, the impact of cuts on the crisis and a series of recommendations.       SUBMISSION     (November 18, 2003)
  
  
• Fleuelling letters
  Correspondence by the Ontario Health Coalition to successive Ontario Ministers of Health regarding the inquest into the death of Joshua Fleuelling.       LETTERS     (January 18, 2001)
  
  
• Public Pain, Private Gain: The Privatisation of Health Care in Ontario
  32 page summary of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s report: Tipping the Balance: Health Care Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario       SUMMARY     (Summer 2000)
  
  
• Hamilton Organizing Saves Hospitals
  Pressure from the community forces the government to commit to keeping keeping Henderson, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton General and St. Joseph's open with increased funding.       ARTICLE     (May 2000)
  
  
• Response to the Metropolitan Toronto Health Services Restructuring Commission Report
  Ontario Health Coalition opposes recommendations for cuts, downloading and two-tier health.       SUBMISSION     ( April 21, 1997)
  
  

• Hospital Cuts & Restructuring: a Closer Look
  (January 31, 2006)
• Women as Workers in the Health Care System
  (February 2003)
• Privatization of Medicare and Women
  (February 2003)
• Health Care Restructuring and Women's Access to Medicare
  (February 2003)
• Hospital Funding Fact Sheet
  (January 2000)
• Hospital Fact Sheet #2
  (May 1999)
• Hospital Fact Sheet #1
  (February 1999)

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