MEDIA ADVISORY: Ground-breaking study of challenges faced by PSWs, nurses, custodians during pandemic released Tuesday in Thunder Bay

Event Information

Begins: 1 December 2020 @ 10:00 AM

Location: Thunder Bay, ON

THUNDER BAY, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– A major new peer-reviewed academic study that delves into the challenges faced by front-line Ontario health care staff working under crisis conditions during the early months of the pandemic, will be released in Thunder Bay on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 10 a.m. 

The researchers chronicled (in real time) how front-line workers coped as COVID-19 unfolded. The study also makes key recommendations on what we must do differently as Ontario’s under-resourced health system faces the COVID-19 second wave.

Study co-author Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) will be in Thunder Bay at the Holiday Inn for a (live, in-person) media conference. The study’s principal authors Dr. Jim Brophy and Dr. Margaret Keith will join the media conference remotely to release their findings and answer media questions.

Brophy and Keith, who are affiliated with the University of Windsor, have previously published two studies on violence in Ontario’s hospitals (2017) and long-term care homes (2019).

Who:  Academic researchers Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith, with Michael Hurley, President of OCHU, the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Ontario

What:  Media conference to release new study on health care workers’ lived experience during the pandemic.

Where:  Holiday Inn (Lakehead Room), 1041 Carrick St, Thunder Bay

When:  10 a.m. Tuesday, December 1, 2020

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For more information, please contact:

Stella Yeadon, CUPE Communications, 416-559-9300
Zaid Noorsumar, CUPE Communications, 647-995-9859