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April 14, 2023 14:12 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Health Coalition Announces Massive Fight Back to Stop the Ford Government’s Plans to Privatize Ontario’s Public Hospitals

TORONTO, April 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the first time, Ontario’s government is pushing forward with plans to privatize the province’s public hospitals. In response, thousands of Ontarians...
April 13, 2023 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REPEAT: MEDIA ADVISORY: Charter challenge by patient advocates filed against Ford government’s law overriding elderly patients’ right to consent & coercing them out of hospital

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, April 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) have made a major step forward in their Charter...
April 12, 2023 14:38 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

MEDIA ADVISORY: Charter challenge by patient advocates filed against Ford government’s law overriding elderly patients’ right to consent & coercing them out of hospital

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, April 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) have made a major step forward in their Charter...
February 27, 2023 13:49 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Patients Who Have Been Extra-Billed Thousands of Dollars in Ontario Private Clinics Join Advocates to Call Out Ford Government’s False Claims

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leda Raptis from Kingston was charged $2,000 for an MRI at a private clinic. She needed the MRI for open heart surgery. When she...
February 27, 2023 07:30 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REMINDER - Media Advisory: Patients to Share Stories About Being Charged Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars by Ontario Private Clinics Extra-Billing & Upselling

TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition will be joined by patients from across Ontario as they reveal thousands of dollars in charges from private, for-profit...
February 26, 2023 09:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REMINDER - Media Advisory: Patients to Share Stories About Being Charged Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars by Ontario Private Clinics Extra-Billing & Upselling

TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition will be joined by patients from across Ontario as they reveal thousands of dollars in charges from private, for-profit...
February 24, 2023 16:37 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Media Advisory: Patients to Share Stories About Being Charged Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars by Ontario Private Clinics Extra-Billing & Upselling

TORONTO, Feb. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition will be joined by patients from across Ontario as they reveal thousands of dollars in charges from private, for-profit...
February 13, 2023 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REMINDER--Local Town Hall Meetings to Stop Ford’s Plans to Privatize Our Local Public Hospitals & Demand Action to Fix the Hospital Crisis

TORONTO, Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: The Ontario Health Coalition is holding local town halls to stop Ford government’s plans to privatize our local public hospitals and demand they...
February 07, 2023 16:49 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Local Town Hall Meetings to Stop Ford’s Plans to Privatize Our Local Public Hospitals & Demand Action to Fix the Hospital Crisis

TORONTO, Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: The Ontario Health Coalition is holding local town halls to stop Ford government’s plans to privatize our local public hospitals and demand they...
February 07, 2023 13:02 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Left unchallenged, “create a crisis and privatize” provincial schemes will destroy public health care: Health Coalition called on Trudeau to step up and show real leadership

TORONTO, Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For decades the Ontario Health Coalition has been on the front line of the fight to safeguard public health care against privatization and to protect...