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Ban Medical Tourism - add your voice to the growing call!
On October 29th AOHC joined a number of health care organizations at a lively Queen's Park media conference to call on the Ontario government to ban hospitals from providing preferential medical treatment for a fee to international patients.
Read joint media release here.
Our health-care system is under attack as experiments with medical tourism continue in some hospitals in Toronto. We have reason to believe this is happening in other locations as well.
These experiments are compromising the future of Medicare. Medical tourism will erode the quality and accessibility of health services for all people in Ontario.
Medical tourism refers to a practice where health-care institutions create for-profit programs to attract patients from other countries to receive health care on a pay-for-treatment basis.
RNAO, Association of Ontario Health Centres, Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and the Association of Ontario Midwives are calling on the government of Ontario to immediately ban medical tourism. We have formed a coalition to engage all health professionals and the public to get involved by:
- Sending a letter addressed to Premier Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins; Ontario Cabinet Ministers; Jim Wilson, Interim Leader of the PC Party of Ontario; Andrea Horwath, Leader of the NDP of Ontario.
- On Twitter? Use #BanMedicalTourism to be a part of the conversation.
- Sharing this action alert with your family, friends, co-workers and networks.
- Letting us know if you think medical tourism is happening in your hospital.
- Letting us know if Ontario patients are being bumped by pay-for-treatment patients.
- Sharing the poster: http://bit.ly/banmedicaltourism
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Voice your concerns and recommendations about home and community care
AOHC encourages its members to take advantage of an important opportunity to improve home and community care in Ontario. Early next year a group of experts convened by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care will present recommendations on how to improve home and community care. As a first step, the group is distributing a survey to probe:
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frustrations experienced in receiving home and community care
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changes needed to increase coordination and integration of services (e.g., hospital transitions, primary care, home and community care, social services)
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ways that providers could better meet the needs
This survey provides a platform to voice concerns about how current services respond poorly to the needs of marginalized populations. It also provides an ideal opening to spotlight the capability of our Model of Health and Wellbeing in developing a more integrated, accessible and equitable approach to care coordination and system navigation for home and community care services.
Next week, AOHC will submit our response to the survey. We will post it in the next edition of the bulletin and encourage submissions from frontline providers who can speak firsthand about home and community care problems as well from people who can speak directly to needed change. The deadline for submission is Friday October 31st.
Please send copies of your submissions to Mary MacNutt: marym@aohc.org. These details will greatly assist our advocacy efforts at provincial tables.
Here are the links to the survey for direct online submission:
English
French
You can also download and complete the survey and mail it to:
Home and Community Care Review
PO Box 29612 Central Parkway PO
Mississauga, ON L5A 4H2
Or email it to: homeandcommunitycarereview@gmail.com
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| How to bring our shared vision of the future - the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone in Ontario - to life
 Together, AOHC and our member centres are on a journey upstream - away from sickness and toward health and wellbeing - and the Model of Health and Wellbeing is the blueprint for our journey.
This series introduces the Model, brings its principles, values and attributes to life with stories and data, and includes opportunities for review and reflection.
The Model of Health and Wellbeing Online Learning Series.
Click here to order the Model of Health and Wellbeing Online Learning Series, includes bonus introduction
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Stop private clinics
The Ontario Health Coalition is concerned that the government is stripping local community hospitals of services by cutting or privatizing them. The private clinics are charging user fees in violation of the Canada Health Act and the principles of Medicare.
A rally is planned at Queens Park at noon on November 21 to stop private clinics and save local public hospitals.
More information
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Proposed new law could mean better protection for workers
MPPs at Queens Park will soon be debating Bill 18, "Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act", a proposed new law that has the potential to improve working conditions for people in unstable employment. The Workers Action Centre wants help to make the Bill stronger and ensure that MPPs support it. They are looking for people willing to share their personal stories about wage theft, temporary agency work, minimum wages, and unstable and insecure employment.
If you know people willing to share their story either anonymously or using their own name, please encourage them to contact Workers Action Centre at 416-531-0778 x 230 or info@workersactioncentre.org.
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Stop Federal Private Members Bill C-585
An open letter is being sent to MP Corneliu Chisu calling on him to withdraw Bill C-585 which would allow provinces to restrict access to social assistance for refugee claimants. If your organization would like to co-sign, with AOHC and many others, please email isac@lao.on.ca before November 12.
Please sign and share the petition
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Don't miss the Quality Improvement Learning event on November 19
Featured presentation:
Dr. Laura Muldoon and Jennifer Rayner present findings from their recent CHC interprofessional teams study.
This session will describe results from a recent study that examined CHC interprofessional teams and how they function and work together. Differences between provider types, organizations and possible explanations (next steps) will be explored. A discussion will follow the presentation that will focus on how interprofessional teams can become more leaderful which will ultimately lead to improved health outcomes, increased staff experience and quality improvement.
Register now to take advantage of early bird pricing. The early bird deadline is November 6.
View agenda and register now
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AOHC Privacy Library portal session
Wednesday, November 26 - 10:00-11:00 a.m.
In this session, members will walk through the new AOHC Privacy Library.
Sections of thelibrary include:
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AOHC Policies, Procedures and Documents
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Privacy Legislations
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COACH Guidelines
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Information and Privacy Commissioner, Resources
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ehealth Ontario Privacy Resources
Register now
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