H+K Memo on Ontario Government COVID-19 Press Conference
MEMO: To: H+K Clients From: Hill+Knowlton Strategies Subject: Ontario Government Press Conference on COVID-19 Date: March 16, 2020 Context On March 16, 2020, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to update on the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Ford was joined by Finance Minister, Rod Phillips; Minister of Labour, Training and […]
H+K Memo on Ontario Government’s Mental Health and Addictions Strategy
MEMO: To: Public Affairs Clients From: Hill+Knowlton Strategies Subject: Ontario unveils its mental health and addictions strategy, Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System Date: March 3, 2020 Today, Minister of Health Christine Elliott and Associate Minister of Mental Health Michael Tibollo unveiled government’s mental health and addictions strategy, […]
Ontario Government Announces Changes to Mental Health and Addictions System
Ministry of Health news release – March. 3, 2020 Ontario is launching Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System. Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Michael Tibollo, Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, were at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences to unveil […]
Ontario Government Announces Changes to Home and Community Care
Ministry of Health news release background- Feb. 25, 2020 Ontario is modernizing home and community care services to enable the introduction of integrated and innovative models of care. Since its initial introduction, the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994 and the delivery model it supports have not kept pace with a number of changing […]
Government to phase out red and white OHIP cards
January 9, 2020 News from the Ontario Ministry of Health Government of Ontario Protecting the Health Care System from Fraud Switching to Secure Photo Health Card is Easy and Free Ontario is protecting the health care system against fraud by ensuring the final transition to a more secure photo health card. As of […]
Ontario Health Chair Thanks Susan Fitzpatrick for her service as Interim CEO
January 29, 2020 TO: Ontario Health Stakeholder Partners FROM: Bill Hatanaka, Ontario Health Board Chair As Susan Fitzpatrick ends her tenure this week as Interim CEO for Ontario Health, I’d like to take a moment to thank her and recognize some of her many achievements. Susan joined the organization in April 2019 with a focused […]
Assistant Chief Medical Officer of Health Letter- novel coronavirus
January 23, 2020 Dear Health System Partners, I am writing to continue sharing information about the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This outbreak of 2019-nCoV continues to evolve, and there have been some significant developments that I want to bring to your attention. Case Counts: Firstly, the case counts in China (Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai plus several other […]
Alternate payment model is saving province millions at two Alberta clinics
Excerpt from CBC News, published December 10, 2019 By Jennifer Lee A new report by the Health Quality Council of Alberta reveals two Alberta primary care clinics — using an alternative funding model for doctors — are saving the health-care system millions of dollars a year. HQCA studied 10 years’ worth of data from […]
Chief Medical Officer of Health Memo- Novel Coronavirus in China
January 10, 2020 Dear Health System Partners, I am writing to share information with you about the World Health Organization’s announcement (WHO’s) yesterday, of the identification of a new (or novel) coronavirus in China. This new virus was identified as part of the investigation of a cluster of 59 people in Wuhan, China that presented […]
Ontario Health Memo: Ontario Health President & CEO
December 20, 2019 MEMORANDUM TO: Ontario Health Stakeholder Partners FROM: Bill Hatanaka, Ontario Health Board Chair As a valued partner, I am very pleased to share with you that the Board of Directors of Ontario Health has appointed Matthew Anderson as Ontario Health’s President and CEO effective February 1, 2020. Since 2016 Matthew has been […]