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This investment will help clients and caregivers most in need, including $80 million for enhanced home care and $20 million for caregiver respite. Home care patients and those who care for them will benefit from approximately: 350,000 additional hours of…

The new health hub will consolidate selected services from three hospitals and four community health service providers onto one site in Orléans. When complete, patients in the Orléans area will benefit from bilingual, integrated and patient-centered services closer to home…

Today, Parliamentary Assistant John Fraser visited Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Pleasant Manor Retirement Village long-term care home. This is one of more than 300 long-term care homes that Ontario is helping redevelop over the next nine years.  Through these enhancements, residents will benefit…

Ontario is investing more than $3.6 million in a new radiation treatment unit at the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket. More than 400 additional cancer patients from York Region and south Simcoe County will…

A study using undercover observers to check how often health-care workers wash their hands has offered powerful new evidence that Canadian hospitals’ much-vaunted hygiene rates are more illusion than reality. Medical students in the study who secretly monitored hand cleaning…

The province and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) have reached a tentative four-year agreement that would, if ratified, strengthen the quality, access and timeliness of health care while providing a predictable physician services budget. The tentative agreement contains annual increases…

The federal government has announced $382 million in new funding to implement Jordan’s Principle —  the rule adopted by the House of Commons in 2007 ensuring equal access to health care and social services for First Nations children. The money will fund the Liberal government’s…

Apple wants to encourage millions of iPhone owners to register as organ donors through a software update that will add an easy sign-up button to the health information app that comes installed on every smartphone the company makes. CEO Tim…

The Government of Canada is committed to supporting Manitoba First Nations communities overcome the difficulties they are facing with respect to social conditions and health. Today, after visiting First Nations communities in Manitoba, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health,…

Blood donation clinics are ditching the paper registration form that currently needs to be filled out every time a donor visits. Starting July 4, donors will be able to fill out their registration at home, ahead of their visit. Or…