{"id":49108,"date":"2026-07-31T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=23f664295a7900d4519277f1bc8a9ad5"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:12:00","slug":"pushed-over-the-brink-new-research-report-to-reveal-full-impact-of-austerity-agenda-on-mounting-ontario-hospital-crisis-as-funds-available-for-day-to-day-bills-plummet-across-the-pr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=49108","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPushed over the brink\u201d: new research report to reveal full impact of austerity agenda on mounting Ontario hospital crisis as funds available for day-to-day bills plummet across the province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bwalignc\">\n<i>Media conference in London on Wednesday, August 5 to reveal full findings<\/i><\/p><p>LONDON, ON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new research report on Ontario\u2019s hospital crisis highlights the destabilization of the sector through chronic underfunding and increasing privatization of healthcare services. These tactics are introducing additional strains on an already starving system and deepening the current government\u2019s problems.<\/p><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260731918253\/en\/841490\/5\/OCHU_CUPE_Logo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260731918253\/en\/841490\/22\/OCHU_CUPE_Logo.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260731918253\/en\/841490\/5\/OCHU_CUPE_Logo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260731918253\/en\/841490\/21\/OCHU_CUPE_Logo.jpg\" \/><\/a><p>\n\u201cPushed over the brink: the escalating assault on Ontario\u2019s hospitals\u201d paints a picture of the dire conditions that hospitals are facing in the wake of Ford\u2019s austerity agenda. Citing the latest data, the report shows concerning trends as daily operating budgets plummet and funding increases fail to match growing cost pressures.<\/p><p>\nWhile Ontario hospitals face rising deficits with no relief, job cuts and wait-times are accelerating across the province. These new problems compound the government\u2019s failure to fix \u201challway healthcare\u201d as it promised.<\/p><p>\nCUPE will release the full findings of the report at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5. This includes new data on London\u2019s available working capital to pay day-to-day bills, bed occupancy rate, and the additional funds and staff needed to meet the average spending per capita of other provinces.<\/p><p>\nWho: Michael Hurley, President of CUPE\u2019s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) and Doug Allan, Senior Researcher at CUPE National<\/p><p>\nWhat: Media conference to release findings of research report on the hospital capacity and privatization crisis<\/p><p>\nWhere: London Public Central Library, 251 Dundas St, London ON<\/p><p>\nWhen: 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2026<\/p><p class=\"bwalignr\">\nkl\/cope491<\/p><br\/> <b>Contacts<\/b> <br\/><p>\n<b>For more information, contact<\/b>:\n<br\/>Hayley Rivier-Gatt\n<br\/>CUPE Communications\n<br\/><a  href=\"mailto:hrivier-gatt@cupe.ca\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">hrivier-gatt@cupe.ca<\/a><br\/>(613) 986-3279<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media conference in London on Wednesday, August 5 to reveal full findingsLONDON, ON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;A new research report on Ontario\u2019s hospital crisis highlights the destabilization of the sector through chronic underfunding and increasing privatiza&#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-49108","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\/49108","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=49108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49109,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108\/revisions\/49109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}