President @ AdvisoryMD | ICU MD/MBA | Personal Finance, Career Coaching, Real Estate Investing for Physicians | AI Innovation in Healthcare IG:dr.michaelwarner
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The status quo wastes millions needed for patient care.
What prevents hospitals from collaborating?
Become price setters vs. price takers in the agency nurse market.
What if hospitals banned agencies altogether & worked with unions to create more flexible scheduling?
The privatization of nursing care in Ontario is costing taxpayers millions of dollars (fees paid to agencies exceed union rate + pension/benefits)
Premier Ford should be protecting hospitals from predatory pricing by for-profit agencies.
Public $ continue to enrich private agencies.
Rates up 2X. Costs in the $100s of millions.
Why hasn’t @ongov attended to this vital issue as they promised in Aug’22?
Ontario spending on private nursing agencies quadrupled since COVID-19, data show /via theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
Speaking to @UofTSurgery graduating residents on the connection between financial vulnerability and physician burnout.
Personal finance education, mentorship and planning can help keep clinical practice enjoyable.
Recommendation 12 from the 1st interim SARS commission report (2004) on how best to reform public health In Ontario.
Neither politicians nor their operatives should be interfering with communications between the CMOH and the public.
The Ontario government offered the Star an interview with its top doctor. At the last minute, it was cancelled.
When asked why, our reporter was told “there was a scheduling conflict.” That statement, it turns out, was not true.
trib.al/la0M3r2
The use of private nursing agencies costs hospitals/taxpayers millions.
@ongov promised to stabilize agency fees in Aug ’22.
They haven’t
Instead, they fight to keep nurses wages suppressed while encouraging private clinics which will make hospitals more reliant on agencies.
WATCH: Hospitals are facing a nursing shortage partly because many nurses have left for more flexible, higher-paying nursing agencies, run by private companies. @christinecbc found out why the cost to the public system is more than just financial.
cbc.ca/player/play/220483949…
On March 25, 2020 @ongov made the announcement below.
Cancelling this program without concomitantly removing barriers for marginalized individuals and new immigrants to obtain a valid health card...is cruel.
Requirements to get an OHIP card:
-Present in person to Service Ontario
-Complete application that requires a home address
-Have 3 forms of ID
bit.ly/42EDBNe
What if you're physically disabled?
What if you don't have a home?
What if you have mental health challenges?
