WINCHESTER, ON, January 29, 2024 – After repeatedly attempting to resolve serious safety and quality of care concerns in the Family Birthing Unit of Winchester District Memorial Hospital, the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) has taken the rare step of calling in an independent panel of nursing experts to review working conditions and make recommendations.

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KINGSTON, ON., November 20, 2023 – Registered nurses (RNs) at one of the medicine units at the General site of Kingston Health Sciences Centre have called in an independent panel of nursing experts to investigate their concerns about RN staffing levels and the impact on safe, quality patient care on the hospital’s medicine unit.

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CAMPBELLFORD, ON – An Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) panel of nursing experts has made 141 recommendations to address serious concerns raised by registered nurses (RNs) in the Medical/Surgical unit at Campbellford Memorial Hospital (CMH). The recommendations are aimed at improving staffing, recruiting, and retaining nurses and creating a quality practice setting.

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CAMPBELLFORD, ON, June 23, 2023 – Specialized medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) at Campbellford Memorial Hospital have taken the rare step of calling in an Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) to investigate issues in the hospital’s inpatient medical unit and special care unit. The nurses – members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association – have repeatedly raised serious concerns with hospital management and received no resolution.

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KINGSTON, ON, October 18, 2022 – Citing grave concerns about the failure of Kingston Health Sciences Centre to take action to improve patient and staff safety, registered nurses (RNs) and the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) have taken the rare, last-ditch step of calling in an independent panel of experts to review the hospital’s Mental Health and Addiction Care Program.

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