{"id":5358,"date":"2026-05-13T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=6263a694c0b3f7df6dd35c0b44f98f43"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:34:00","slug":"new-report-shows-ottawa-hospitals-budget-deficits-undermining-timely-access-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=5358","title":{"rendered":"New report shows Ottawa hospitals\u2019 budget deficits undermining timely access for patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bwalignc\">\n<i>CCPA and CUPE will be revealing local data on wait-times and budget shortfalls for Ottawa hospitals at Friday morning press conference<\/i><\/p><p>OTTAWA--(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\/20260513380656\/en\/2804453\/4\/Screenshot_2026-05-11_082846.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260513380656\/en\/2804453\/22\/Screenshot_2026-05-11_082846.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260513380656\/en\/2804453\/4\/Screenshot_2026-05-11_082846.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260513380656\/en\/2804453\/21\/Screenshot_2026-05-11_082846.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 per cent 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>\nAt the Ottawa press conference on Friday, Longhurst will reveal detailed findings from the report during a press conference <b>including data on The Ottawa Hospital and other hospitals in the city.<\/b><\/p><p>\nHe 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 Friday, May 15<\/p><p>\n<b>Where: <\/b>McNabb Recreation Centre - 180 Percy St., Ottawa<\/p><p>\n<b>What: <\/b>Media conference to release findings of new research report about hospital budget deficits<\/p><p>\n<b>Who: <\/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 and CUPE will be revealing local data on wait-times and budget shortfalls for Ottawa hospitals at Friday morning press conferenceOTTAWA&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;The majority of Ontario\u2019s 136 hospitals have carried operational deficits since 2022, and th&#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-5358","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\/5358","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=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}