MEDIA ADVISORY: Media conference at Queen’s Park at 10 a.m. on Thursday: New report shows wide gulf between the resources needed to address Ontario’s hospital staffing and capacity crisis versus the Ford government’s insufficient plan

Event Information

Begins: 14 September 2023
Location: Toronto, ON

CUPE/OCHU media conference on Wednesday morning to reveal the number of additional hospital beds and staff needed in Toronto and across Ontario over the next four years

TORONTO, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– A new research report on Ontario’s hospitals staffing and capacity crisis compiles latest data showing a dramatic increase in job vacancy rates, worsening staffing levels, and other troubling trends.

Ontario’s Hospital Crisis: No Capacity, No Plan, No End warns that the current crisis will only worsen over the next four years as pressures on hospitals stemming from an aging and growing population will leave the province well short of the resources needed to meet patient needs.

Based on the most recent data, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (CUPE/OCHU) has estimated the number of additional hospital staff and beds required over the next four years in Toronto and the entire province, contrasting it with the government’s woefully inadequate plan.

The union will be releasing the full findings of the report at a media conference at Queen’s Park on Thursday morning at 10 a.m.

Who:
Michael Hurley, president of OCHU/CUPE and Doug Allan, CUPE hospital sector researcher

What:
OCHU/CUPE Media Conference to announce findings of the research report
“Ontario’s Hospital Crisis: No Capacity, No Plan, No End”

When:
10 a.m. on Thursday, September 14

Where:
Queen’s Park Media Studio

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For more information contact:

Zaid Noorsumar, CUPE Communications
647-995-9859
znoorsumar@cupe.ca