SLHC is a non-partisan, non-profit group who work to enhance our Public Health System and to prevent further privatization of healthcare services.
Sarnia, Ontario
Joined October 2022
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Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Ford is not stopping. He is now accelerating his hospital privatization. This summer, Ford has announced 57 new private clinics that will take more than 100,000 diagnostic tests out of local public hospitals- along with funding and staffing.
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
We cannot let two-tier medicare and the charging of patients thousands of dollars for surgeries & diagnostic tests to become normalized. We are on the cusp of it now. If we don't fight back, we are going to lose Public Medicare.
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
At stake is our single tier Public Medicare & the services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don't let Ford destroy them.
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
The situation is extremely urgent. Pls fill the Public Galleries at the Legislature on Wed Oct 29, host a Legislature Watch event in your town, and spread the word. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure. Details below 👇
#onpoli #ontario #healthcare #dougford #toronto
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Thank you to all who came out to rallies in Kitchener-Waterloo, Embro & St. Thomas to show Ontarians visible opposition to #dougford's expanding hospital privatization plans.
Let's keep building the fightback in Oxford County & Niagara this weekend & next week 🧵👇
#onpoli
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
“Many of our public hospitals in Ontario date back a century or more.Most of our hospitals were founded by municipalities & charitable or religious orders. As the middle-class faced difficulty paying for medical bills,the movement to create public hospitals kindled”Natalie Mehra
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Show Ford that we oppose his privatization of our public health care this weekend in Hamilton, Tillsonburg, Mississauga, Kincardine, Owen Sound, Sarnia & Windsor. More rallies next week.
More information and contact info here: ontariohealthcoalition.ca/in…
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Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
The #Ontario government has plans to restrict access to #LTC inspection reports which detail & name the negligent operators during the Covid19 pandemic.👇🏼Public comments to Ontario Regulatory Registry by July 4. #OnPol #QueensPark regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca…
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Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
A private clinic illegally charged Maureen nearly $7,000 for cataract surgery. She had to borrow money from her bank to pay for her operation.
Read about our formal complaint filed on behalf of 50 patients who were charged at private clinics 👇
thestar.com/news/canada/cata…
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Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Join us this Saturday, March 8th, as Dr. Bernard Ho and Dr. David Urbach guide us through the latest data, share key lessons learned, examine the impact of for-profit surgeries, and explore public innovations designed to reduce wait times and improve health care delivery.
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Some have suggested “privatization” to reduce wait times, but after careful research and review, it's clear that introducing more privately-funded health care does not shorten waitlists – it rearranges them.
How do we end health care wait times?
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
The nurses are calling for nurse:patient staffing ratios. We all should get behind it. The conditions of work are the conditions of care and nurses have stretched themselves beyond breaking to hold our health care together. Help stop the exploitation of our nurses. ⤵️⤵️
#StarInvestigation: Nurses in the Niagara Health System are facing overwhelming patient loads that are undermining care and risk triggering staff burnout, according to internal hospital documents obtained by the Star and Investigative Journalism Bureau. trib.al/QQtuZoL
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
“In Ontario, we have 250,000 people waiting on a surgery list..” so why isn’t healthcare a bigger election issue? @ScottMillerCTV @CTVNews ctvnews.ca/london/article/on…
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
This sounds startling but it is true. While grabbing headlines saying Ontarians would never have to use their credit card, only their OHIP card, in Bill 60, @fordnation expanded private clinics & threw the doors wide open to extra charges, allowing them to upsell to patients. >>
Lots of talk about chicanery in Alberta Health contracts. In ON the opportunities for grift and thievery are baked right into Bill 60. #Alberta #onpoli @Avis_Favaro @OntLiberal @notoneseat @ONPlace4All @TDotResident @beynate @ontarionurses @OntarioHealthC
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
David was charged >$8,000 for cataract surgery by a private clinic. The Ford govt is doing nothing to stop these illegal user fees. Instead, they gave large volume contracts to for-profit cataract clinics. Please, look at the record on health care when you vote.
#onpoli
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Emergency departments had a record no. of closures last yr, even worse than the 1,199 closures of emerg departments, urgent care centres & more in 2023. Before 2018 when the Ford govt took power, emerg department closures were almost unheard of.
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Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
1/2 After she left office, the Ford govt’s former Health Minister Christine Elliott became a lobbyist for a corporation that owns a for-profit hospital.
#onpoli #ontario #healthcare
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
One of the lowest moments of Premier Ford was when his Health Minister quit and became a lobbyist for a for-profit surgical clinic she had directed funds to when in government. The corruption isn’t even tried to be hidden. @OntarioHealthC
1/5 Privatization takes away from our local hospitals & has the most devastating impacts on smaller, rural & Northern communities. But the Ford govt has increased funding to private clinics & hospitals by up to and over 300%.
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#healthcare #onpoli #ontario
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
A single private equity firm now controls the largest network of independent surgical centers in Canada, with 53 operating rooms across 14 cities in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C.
What are the risks of private equity investment in health care?
Sarnia Lambton Health Coalition retweeted
Doug Ford cancelled his visit to the Sault today as 1/10 of the population of Thessalon , 90 km away, protested about the closure of their hospital. Minden, Wingham, Carleton Place, Clinton, Chesley...rural Ontario is reeling from ER closures under this government.
