{"id":1806,"date":"2026-05-06T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=229ce5af047721ae4c8399dcf9ddd012"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:32:00","slug":"hospital-admission-wait-times-increase-52-per-cent-over-5-years-as-perpetual-budget-deficits-become-new-normal-for-ontario-hospitals-ccpa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Hospital admission wait-times increase 52 per cent over 5 years as perpetual budget deficits become new normal for Ontario hospitals: CCPA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bwalignc\">\n<i>CCPA research study on hospital deficits to be released on Monday morning at a Queen\u2019s Park press conference<\/i><\/p><p>TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The majority of Ontario\u2019s 136 hospitals have carried operational deficits since 2022, and this puts an already precarious public system at risk, says new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).<\/p><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260506553996\/en\/2797491\/4\/Screenshot_2026-05-06_141403.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260506553996\/en\/2797491\/22\/Screenshot_2026-05-06_141403.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260506553996\/en\/2797491\/4\/Screenshot_2026-05-06_141403.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260506553996\/en\/2797491\/21\/Screenshot_2026-05-06_141403.jpg\" \/><\/a><p>\nIn <i>Failure, By Design: Ontario\u2019s deepening hospital funding crisis,<\/i> CCPA\u2019s senior researcher Andrew Longhurst finds that rising hospital costs of six percent annually and government underfunding are creating a toxic situation that undermines the goal of offering timely access to care for patients. For instance, 90 per cent of patients spent 44 hours in the emergency department awaiting hospital admission in 2024\/25 \u2013 a 52 per cent increase over five years.<\/p><p>\nOn Monday morning, Longhurst will reveal detailed findings from the report during a press conference at Queen\u2019s Park. He will be joined by Michael Hurley, the president of CUPE\u2019s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) to speak about the report\u2019s recommendations to address the staffing and capacity shortfall in the sector.<\/p><p>\n<b>When:<\/b> 10 a.m. on Monday, May 11<\/p><p>\n<b>Where: <\/b>Queen\u2019s Park media studio, 1 Wellesley St., Toronto<\/p><p>\n<b>What: <\/b>Media conference to release findings of new research report about hospital budget deficits<\/p><p>\n<b>Who:\n<br\/><\/b>Andrew Longhurst, senior researcher, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives\n<br\/>Michael Hurley, president, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU\/CUPE)<\/p><p>\n:gv\/cope491<\/p><br\/> <b>Contacts<\/b> <br\/><p>\n<b>For more information please contact:<\/b><br\/>Zee Noorsumar,\n<br\/>CUPE Communications\n<br\/><a  href=\"mailto:znoorsumar@cupe.ca\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">znoorsumar@cupe.ca<\/a><br\/>647-995-9859<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCPA research study on hospital deficits to be released on Monday morning at a Queen\u2019s Park press conferenceTORONTO&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;The majority of Ontario\u2019s 136 hospitals have carried operational deficits since 2022, and this puts an already precar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}