Brampton Caledon Health Coalition

Protect and improve public health care and health equity in Brampton and Caledon!

As a part of Ontario Health Coalition, we are dedicated to making healthcare better for our community, and Ontario at large. We want healthcare to be accessible, equitable, and of excellent quality for every resident.

We are a part of Ontario Health Coalition.

Healthcare Protest April 22: Brampton and Caledon Deserve More!
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  • The Pointer: April 22 Protest at Brampton Civic will push for better healthcare

    On March 17th, The Pointer Brampton Published a dedicated article on our April 22 protest outside Brampton Civic Hospital, with support from Peel Paramedics’ Union, Peel Regional Labour Council, Peel Elementary Teachers’ Local, Labour Community Services of Peel, Health Providers Against Poverty, Ghost Gurney, and more! Read the Pointer Article Here: Protest at Brampton Civic… Read more

  • BrCHC on CTV News Toronto! OHC REPORT (& BCH Protest Announced)

    OHC Report: Robbing the public to build the private PLUS Announcing our BrCHC April 22 PROTEST for Truly Universal Healthcare (outside Brampton Civic Hospital) February 21, 2024 Watch Ontario Health Coalition and Brampton Caledon Health Coalition on CTV News Toronto at 6! At our press conference we also announced our Protest for Truly Universal Healthcare… Read more

  • PRESS RELEASE/CONFERENCE FEB. 21, 1pm: OHC Privatization Report and Brampton Civic Hospital Protest Announcement

    February 20, 2024 For Immediate Release                                                                                       Attn: Assignment Editor MEDIA ADVISORY New report exposes harmful impact of Ford government’s privatization scheme on local public hospitals: Health Coalition PLUS Grassroots protest outside Brampton Civic Hospital in April: fighting to stop privatization, more hospitals in Brampton and Caledon, and OHIP for all Brampton/Caledon: As the Ford government… Read more

  • ACTION: Truly Universal Healthcare in Brampton and Caledon: A Letter to Our Representatives.

    Please copy this email, make it your own with your own story and opinions, and send it to your representative. You can find your provincial MPP: https://www.ola.org/en/members/current. You can also send this to your City Council member and Mayor for Brampton: https://www.brampton.ca/en/City-Hall/CouncilOffice/Pages/Welcome.aspx Or Caledon: https://www.caledon.ca/en/government/mayor-and-council.aspx Or your federal MP: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en (Bonus! Email the Region of… Read more

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Our Main Issues

More Hospitals in Brampton

Brampton and Caledon have 827,500 people and one fully functioning hospital with an emergency room and beds. Construction on our second emergency room won’t start until 2027.

We Demand:

To get Brampton and Caledon to the Canadian Average for hospital beds to population by immediately starting to plan and build its 4th and 5th hospitals to keep up with population growth. These hospitals must be publicly run, not P3 hospitals, and have emergency rooms, fully equipped operating rooms, adequate testing facilities, and overnight beds. This would start with the allocation of land and funding for our third hospital, and expanding the capacity of Peel Memorial’s expansion.

No Privatization of Healthcare

Truly universal healthcare does not exist in a two-tier system, where wealth determines the accessibility of care, while the public system is starved of funding. We need to stop private hospitals and clinics double billing, overbilling, and upselling medically necessary care covered by OHIP.

We Demand:

  1. A moratorium on private hospitals and clinics opening and an Integrity Commissioner investigation into healthcare privatization.
  2. Adequate funding of public healthcare (and for Ontario to spend its whole healthcare budget, and increasing wages to public healthcare workers in line with inflation.

OHIP for All, Regardless of Immigration Status

Truly universal healthcare applies to everyone, including those who are uninsured, whether they are undocumented, temporary foreign workers, non-status migrants, those with status in process, those waiting for an unnecessary 3-month waiting period. These residents live and work here and they are human beings deserving of care, and migrants and newcomers are an essential part of our society and economy.

We demand:

Healthcare for all, including the immediate reinstatement  of Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons Program (PHUP) program, and study of expanding eligibility of OHIP to all Ontario residents, regardless of immigration status. I demand that Peel Memorial Centre have full testing and surgical capacity, and its beds be connected to its ER services.

END #HALLWAYHEALTHCARE NOW! One hospital isn’t enough, Brampton needs our next 5 hospitals planned and built starting NOW! Publicly, with public input! Our elders deserve better! Everyone deserves better! Respond to this video with YOUR #HealthcareStory! Watch live video of our protest outside Brampton Civic Hospital: Brampton and Caledon Deserve More! Go to BramptonCaledonHC.ca and learn, act, and connect! Tell your #HealthcareStory below, on our website, or as a reply to this video! Been fleeced for #cataractsurgery? You’re not alone unfortunately. Defund-destroy-privatize is the name of Doug Ford’s game and we won’t play anymore. Tell us your #healthcarestoryby replying to this video, or on Monday at our protest outside Brampton Civic Hospital. Brampton deserves more! Caledon deserves more! Healthcare workers deserve more! Ontario deserves more! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🏥👩🏽‍⚕️❤️ #healthcare #dougford #onhealth #onpoli #healthcareforall #healthcareworkers #healthcareheroes #nurse #psw #xraytech #hospitalworker #hospital #doctor #publichealthcare #brampton #caledon #bramptoncivichospital SHOCKING facts on Brampton Caledon Healthcare! And Ontario at large. Join us Monday 3-7 pm on the corner of Bramalea and Bovaird to take action! #healthcare #brampton #caledon #onpoli #onhealth #brampton 🚨 ALMOST HERE: MONDAY! April 22 🚨 It’s #NationalVolunteerWeek and we are all volunteers here at BrCHC and couldn’t do it without regular people doing what they can when they can! 🙂#thankyouvolunteers #volunteer #community #brampton #caledon #saveohip #healthcare #healthcareworkers #hospital #bramalea #volunteerhours #teen #highschool Sign up for emails and/or texts, personalized to what kind of info you want to receive, and you will get an interactive quiz that will match you with how you can help based on your capacity, availability, and interests! From just forwarding emails, introducing us to friends, or sharing on social media, to joining a committee or taking a leadership role, there are so many ways you can help, both big and small! We need ideas! What should we sing and chant at our protest? Do you have a story we should tell? We want to hear the community and come together! Any language can be used here, we would love to hear songs or chants from all over the world. Our diversity is our strength. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿❤️ #EqualPayDay represents the amount of time it would take for women to make the same amount as men. Especially affected by unequal pay are healthcare workers, where majority female professions are receiving inadequate pay and bad working conditions, especially affecting women and femmes of colour. Many im/migrant women of colour don’t even have access to OHIP! Join us on Monday April 22 from 3-7pm outside Brampton Civic Hospital on the corner of Bramalea Rd and Bovaird Dr. to stand up for better healthcare for workers and patients! #SaveOHIP #healthcare #healthcareforall #onpoli #onhealth #healthcareworker #essentialworker #nurse #RN #RPN #psw #doctor #ontario #brampton #caledon

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