TORONTO — The Ontario government is making it easier and more convenient for patients to connect to care by expanding the list of drugs that midwives can prescribe and administer for the first time since 2010. This expansion includes additional routine vaccinations, treatment for nausea, vomiting and acid reflux, labour management, birth control and management of labour pain in a …
OTTAWA — The Ontario government is investing $2.75 million over two years to increase access to comfortable and dignified end-of-life care close to home for families in the Ottawa region. This investment will add eight new hospice beds at Hospice Care Ottawa’s La Maison de l’Est, and two new pediatric hospice beds at Roger Neilson Children’s Hospice located at the Children’s …
Initiatives will save doctors 95,000 hours that can now be spent caring for people TORONTO —The Ontario government is taking further action to help family doctors and other primary care providers spend more time with their patients and less time on paperwork. “Our government is making common sense changes that will reduce the administrative burden on family doctors so that …
Historic $1.3 billion contract awarded to construct the future Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre ETOBICOKE — The Ontario government is connecting residents in Etobicoke and Peel Region to more convenient care closer to home by investing in Trillium Health Partner’s (TPH) new Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre in Etobicoke that will serve the needs of these growing communities, now and …
TORONTO — The Government of Ontario and the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) announced that they have successfully ratified a new interim funding agreement starting April 1, 2024. This interim agreement includes an investment of more than $15 million to increase compensation and help connect people to midwifery services. By working together, the Ontario government and AOM are ensuring families …
TORONTO — The Government of Ontario and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) announced that they have reached an agreement on the implementation of the final year of the current physician services agreement (PSA). As part of this agreement, Ontario doctors will receive a 2.8 per cent compensation increase in 2023-24 for services provided as part of the publicly funded health …
Redeveloped NICU will connect newborns and their families to critical care close to home TORONTO — The Ontario government is connecting critically ill newborns and their families in the Toronto area to better, more convenient neonatal intensive care by supporting Unity Health Toronto with the planning, design and implementation of their relocated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Michael’s …
NEWMARKET — The Ontario government is investing over $6.3 million to increase access to pediatric services for children and youth in York Region so they have the care they need, when they need it, right in their own community. This is part of the province’s investment of an additional $330 million each year in pediatric health services at hospitals and community-based health …
Over $4.5 million boost in funding to expand pediatric services WINDSOR — The Ontario government is investing more than $4.5 million to increase access to pediatric services for children and youth in Southwestern Ontario so they have the care they need, when they need it, right in their own community. This is part of the province’s investment of an additional $330 …
$794 million investment will connect more people in the Greater Toronto Area to care closer to home TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing $794 million to the University Health Network’s (UHN) new state-of-the-art patient tower at Toronto Western Hospital. The hospital will add more beds and operating rooms, to connect more families to convenient care, closer to home. “This …
