Ontario Nurses Association Local 67 Providence Care Hospital

07/15/2025

Canada’s nurse union leaders will be meeting with premiers to discuss nursing as a safety-critical workforce at the upcoming Council of the Federation meetings next week.

“Minimum staffing mandates and safe hours of work are about managing risk. In health care, this means managing risks to patient safety. We need to see staffing decisions based on safety, not bottom lines,” said CFNU President Linda Silas.

Read more: https://nursesunions.ca/canadas-nurses-unions-launch-message-to-premiers-no-shortcuts-to-patient-safety/

07/15/2025

A key part of ONA's new F-Word digital magazine is the Fight section, where you share your stories of your fight and solidarity in action.

In this piece, an anonymous ONA member shares their original idea for how to make the average Ontarian understand the importance of nursing ratios to their health care.

Read their story: https://onamag.org/fight/the-vent/nursing-ratios/

And if you want to share your own vent, submit it here: https://onamag.org/contact/

07/15/2025

Home-care nurses and health-care professionals who work at the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) are fighting for fair wages and improved benefits so Ontarians can access high-quality and timely care at home when they need it.

These workers are essential to our health-care system because they provide specialized care, often keeping people out of overflowing hospitals and long-term care facilities.

However, home-care registered nurses (RNs) are the lowest paid in the province, all while facing violence on the job, work in remote areas, and with impossible scheduling commitments. And years of wage cuts and soaring inflation are forcing many home-care nurses and health-care professionals to leave their jobs.

But without them, there is no home care.

Tell the VON Board and FordNation government that they must fix the working conditions in home care and pay fair!

Send your message on our website: https://ona.org/campaign/von-bargaining/

07/11/2025

The Globe and Mail reports that Canadian ERs closed their doors for at least 1.14 million hours since 2019 – the equivalent of 47,500 days.

Addressing the crisis in health care must include a pan-Canadian approach to workforce planning so our ERs and health care workers across our public health care system are there when we need them.

The premiers are all meeting this July. Before they meet, tell your premier there are no shortcuts to patient safety: https://win.newmode.net/cfnu/noshortcutstopatientsafety-2025

07/11/2025

Nursing is the largest safety-critical workforce in health care, and it’s in crisis. Nurses and their patients deserve the kind of protections that pilots and passengers already have.

Tell your premier it’s time to treat nursing as the safety-critical workforce it is: https://win.newmode.net/cfnu/noshortcutstopatientsafety-2025

07/11/2025

Calling all nurse practitioners! As an NP, you have a unique experience in Canada’s health-care system.

The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) has partnered with researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University, McMaster University and Dalhousie University to run an NP study. Their goal is to lean about working conditions for NPs across the country.

They want to know: how and where do you work? What is your level of satisfaction with different parts of your job? What are your future job plans and what’s making you want to stay or leave your job?

Learn more about this survey and participate here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FRYW87T

07/11/2025

Recent allegations about financial mismanagement at London Health Sciences Centre are once again calling into question how health-care funding is spent in Ontario.

As ONA Provincial President, Erin Ariss, told CTV news, "the London community witnessed members of LHSC's previous senior management team, through years of scandal and controversy, treat its staff with disrespect, all while funds desperately needed for front-line care disappeared or were withheld."

It's time invested more of our health-care dollars in safe levels of nurse staffing and front-line care, where it is needed most!

See the full video at our link in bio: https://sprout.link/ontario.nurses/

07/11/2025

In June 2025, Niagara Health announced that from July to early September, the Fort Erie Urgent Care Centre will be closed on Fridays, and the Port Colborne Urgent Care Centre will be closed on Saturdays.

The decision to reduce hours at the only urgent care centres in Fort Erie and Port Colborne jeopardizes the health and well-being of residents and visitors. There are no hospitals or emergency departments in Fort Erie or Port Colborne. The Niagara Region, which includes both towns, sees over 14 million tourists annually, with July to September being the peak of the tourism season. It is irresponsible to close these centres during the busiest time of the year.

Now the Town of Fort Erie is taking action as their town council just opted to temporarily withhold its $3-million contribution toward construction of the new south Niagara Falls hospital in response to this reduction in urgent care.

The council is calling on Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones and the FordNation conservative government to direct Niagara health to fully reinstate summer hours at the urgent care centre for this July and August.

Read the full story at our link in bio: https://sprout.link/ontario.nurses/

07/11/2025

07/11/2025

The energy was palpable when nearly 1,200 nurses rallied in Niagara Falls with elbows up to defend our public health care system at the end of the CFNU Biennial Convention in June.

Gesturing to the nearby mist of the Horseshoe Falls, and the United States beyond, CFNU president Linda Silas told the crowd: “As much as we love our neighbours to the south, we want to make sure we never get to the same situation with our health-care system...We have to work hard to protect public health care, to protect our patients, our residents and our clients."

Find the full article in the St Catharines Standard.

07/06/2025

Nurses have elbows up for public health care, and we aren’t backing down. Together, we are all in – for safe staffing, for safe long-term care, for pharmacare for all, and for public health care!

Thank you to all of the nurses, health care professionals and frontline workers hard at work keeping our communities safe and healthy this Canada Day.

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Les infirmières et infirmiers vont jouer du coude pour défendre les soins de santé publics, et nous n’abandonnerons pas. Nous sommes tous unis pour une dotation sécuritaire en personnel, pour des soins de longue durée sécuritaires, pour un régime d’assurance-médicaments pour tous, et pour des soins de santé publics!

Merci à toutes les infirmières, à tous les professionnels de la santé et tous les travailleurs de première ligne qui travaillent dur pour assurer la sécurité et la santé de nos communautés en cette fin de la fête du Canada.

06/27/2025