BRANTFORD, ON., May 14, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is extremely pleased with the recommendations made by an independent panel of nursing experts following the Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) hearing held regarding the safety and quality of care at the Brant Community Healthcare System’s (BCHS) Emergency Department.

BRANTFORD, ON, March 18, 2024 – After repeatedly raising extremely serious concerns about patient safety and registered nurse (RN) staffing levels, RNs at Brantford Community Healthcare have called in an Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) to investigate issues in the hospital’s emergency department.

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.

KINGSTON, ON, January 26, 2024 – For the second time in as many years, an independent expert nursing panel has made dozens of sound recommendations to Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) to improve patient care and working conditions for nurses and health-care professionals.

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.

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.

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.

May 12, 2023 (Collingwood, ON) – More than 130 recommendations must be implemented at the emergency department at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital (CGMH) to help improve patient care, retain nurses and improve working conditions, concludes an independent nursing expert panel.

COLLINGWOOD, ON., March 21, 2023 – After repeatedly raising serious concerns about patient safety and Registered Nurse (RN) staffing levels, RNs at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital are proceeding with an Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) to investigate issues in the hospital’s emergency department.

December 8, 2022, KINGSTON, ON – An independent panel of nursing experts has made 64 recommendations to improve patient care in the Mental Health and Addiction Care Program (MHAP) at Kingston General Hospital, many of which Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members have been raising for several years.