OCHU

Pushed out of hospital while still acutely ill?

Call the hotline: 888-599-0770
Patients who are acutely ill are being forced out of hospital.
Some are pushed into unregulated for-profit retirement homes which have no standards of care.
A man discharged from a Toronto hospital unable to feed himself starved to death in such a home last year.
A dying Windsor woman was told care in a for-profit retirement home would be better than the care in hospital.
Some  patients are pushed out with the promise of homecare, much of which proves to be non-existent.
This hotline is for family members and former patients to call in to talk about their experience.
We plan to hold a series of media conferences with the people who call, if they are willing to step forward. We plan to issue a report after the provincial election which will challenge the ongoing hospital bed cuts which are driving this phenomenon.
We will also support a legal challenge alleging discrimination in the provision of care based on age....Get full details

2011 CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) -- like C. Difficile, VRE and MRSA -- kill between 3,200-5,000 Ontarians each year. These are people who enter hospital for routine procedures but contract infection during their stay, and die. At least half of these deaths are preventable.

To draw attention to this leading cause of preventable death, OCHU/CUPE has launched a province-wide tour of Ontario, using a theatre set representing a hospital room to demonstrate the disinfection of a room that has been occupied by a patient with a superbug.

We are demanding that Ontario Minister of Health/Long-term Care, Deb Matthews, act aggressively against HAIs: hire more cleaners; ban the contracting-out of cleaning; force hospitals to report HAI deaths; reduce bed occupancy rates from over 100% to 85% or lower; reconfigure hospital rooms so that patients do not share rooms or bathrooms.

UPCOMING DATES: 

JULY 11: WINDSOR
11am-12pm:
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 255
5645 Wyandotte St. East

JULY 12: LONDON
11am-12pm:
Farquharson Arena ('A' Pad)
411 Tecumseh Ave. East

JULY 13: ST CATHARINES
11am-12pm:
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 418
294 Vine Street North

JULY 14: HAMILTON
11am-12pm:
Chedoke Twin Pad Arena
91 Chedmac Drive

JULY 15: TORONTO
11am - 12pm
Queens Park

To date, the tour has visited the following communities: Richard’s Landing; Blind River; Espanola; Mattawa; Geraldton; Hearst; Hornepayne; Chapleau; New Liskeard; Cochrane; Sioux Lookout; Kenora; Fort Frances; Cornwall; Ottawa; Peterborough; Lindsay; and Stratford.

Tour dates to be announced soon...