TIMMINS — The Ontario government is breaking ground on a new health care facility for the Francophone community in Timmins and the surrounding area. The Centre de santé communautaire de Timmins (CSC Timmins) is receiving $1.1 million for early planning work in addition to the $15.6 million the province will be investing to support construction of the new facility. “Our …
Mobile Mental Health Services in Thunder Bay
THUNDER BAY — The Ontario government is investing more than $2.7 million over three years to launch a new mobile crisis response team in Thunder Bay to make it easier and more convenient for people experiencing homelessness or mental health and addictions crisis to get the support they need. This is one of three innovative pilot programs the government is …
Connecting Seniors to Specialized Care and Support
TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing more than $4.1 million over two years to expand GeriMedRisk, a program that makes it easier and faster for seniors living with complex medical needs to access coordinated care, in their community. “Our government is continuing to take action to ensure people of all ages can access the right care, in the right place,” …
Lambton County Gets Mobile Mental Health Services
$2.5 million investment in new mobile crisis response team to provide faster, more convenient access to specialized supports WYOMING — The Ontario government is investing more than $2.5 million over three years to launch a new mobile crisis response team in Lambton County to make it easier and more convenient for people experiencing homelessness or mental health and addictions crisis …
Ontario Connecting People to More Care from Midwives
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 …
Expanding Access to Palliative Care in Ottawa
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 …
Helping Family Doctors Put Patients before Paperwork
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 …
Getting Health Care in Ontario
Ontario – Find information about new health care services Health Ontario manages, and the health care services previously managed by the agencies that now make up Ontario Health. You can also get connected to health care services 24/7 through Health811. Use the health services directory tool to search by type of service or location. One of the framework’s key areas of …
ON Building Better, More Modern Hospital for Etobicoke, Mississauga
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 …
Ontario Launches Bereavement Support Program
Funding will provide families of fallen public safety personnel with rapid access to mental health supports AURORA — The Ontario government is investing over $3 million to support families of first responders and public safety personnel who are killed in the line of duty or have died by suicide. The funding will provide free rapid bereavement counselling for up to …