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February 2023
Global News London: Dr. Rose Zacharias speaks about doctor shortages, wait times and palliative care
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CTV News Barrie: Dr. Rose Zacharias highlights health-care priorities
CP24: Dr. Zacharias speaks ahead of federal health care funding announcement
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Dr. Zacharias talks about improving health-care
Pentictonherald.ca:
Ontario signals acceptance of health deal, raises concerns about funding timelines
The Toronto Star: Doug Ford says Trudeau must spend more on health care
The Toronto Star:
Dr. Zacharias speaks to CTV Barrie about the doctor shortage
CHML:
Dr. Zacharias speaks ahead of the announcement on federal funding for health-care
The Toronto Star:
Canadian doctors spend millions of hours on unnecessary paperwork: report
Medscape.com:
Ontario Government Enlarges Role of Ambulatory Clinics
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Why it's hard to find a family doctor — and what's being done about it
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Orillia doctor, officials weigh in on plan for private clinics
January 2023
CTV News: Emergency rooms not strained by virtual care; research study says
CityNews Ottawa: No evidence enrolled patients subbed ER for virtual family doctor visits: OMA study
CP24: Ontario patients did not go to ER instead of in-person doctor visits: study
The Globe and Mail: The rise of virtual care isn’t driving ER visits, study says
CBC Listen: Virtual care isn't driving up visits to the ER
The Toronto Star: Virtual doctor visits didn't send patients to ERs: study
CTV News Channel: Dr. Zacharias speaks about surgery clinics
CBC News Network: Dr. Zacharias speaks about surgery clinics
CTV News: Plans to address surgical backlog
Global News Radio Vancouver: Dr. Zacharias Interview about surgery clinics
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Reuters: Canadian province's health-care fix raises fears of new strain on public system
CBC News: If cutting surgical wait lists is the only goal, Doug Ford's plan could work
The Globe and Mail: Ontario to boost surgeries at private clinics, asserts change won’t affect public health care system
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: More money is a must, but health-care delivery also needs a major rethink, doctors say
The Globe and Mail
: What the rest of the country can learn from Ontario’s family doctor payment model
Yahoo: Ontario's accreditation program won't alleviate doctor shortage, experts say
CTV News: Tips on maintaining mental health this Christmas
The Toronto Star: Want to avoid COVID, RSV and flu this holiday? Here’s doctors’ advice
Midland News: Ontario Medical Association offers mental health tips
December 2022
The Globe and Mail: Ontario reviving plans for program that fast-tracks foreign-trained doctors into workforce
The Globe and Mail: Virtual walk-in clinics may contribute more strain to health care system: Ontario Medical Association
CityNews: With pediatric hospitals under pressure, Ontario's medical association is offering guidance
CTV Your Morning: Fixing the healthcare crisis
CBC News: Children are dying from flu. Some provinces are slow to report it — and these experts say that's dangerous
CBC News: Northern Ontario's doctor shortage isn't improving, says Ontario Medical Association
CMA: National, provincial, territorial medical organizations urge governments to collaborate to fix health-system crisis
November 2022
CityNews Ottawa: OMA heads to QP
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: OMA heads to QP, Virtual vs. In-person
Medscape
: Canadian caregivers feel overburdened and undervalued
CityNews
: Ontario Doctors meeting with MPPs at Queen’s Park to discuss health-care system
The Cambridge Times
: What is RSV? Respiratory syncytial virus reported in children earlier than usual this year
CBC Radio: OMA offers suggestions to improve health care
The Canadian Press: Ontario’s doctors push province to create non-profit surgical centres for backlog
NewsTalk1010: Ontario Medical Association President Dr Rose Zacharias explains to Moore In The Morning why she is calling on the province to create non-profit, single surgery centres to ease the pressure on the health care system.
The Toronto Sun: Ford is letting top bureaucrats stall clearing of health backlog
The Globe and Mail: Ontario children’s hospitals limiting services as they deal with respiratory-illness surge
CBC Power and Politics podcast
: Ontario's top doctor strongly recommends people wear masks in public indoor spaces
CBC News
: Nearly 20 per cent of Toronto family doctors planning to close practices in next 5 years, survey finds
CTV News: Why you should wear a mask even if it's not mandated
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CTV News: Ontario doctors suggest masking, vaccine catch-up
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: Wearing masks recommended by Ontario agency
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Global News: No, COVID vaccines don’t cause infertility. Debunking 5 myths about women’s health
Yahoo: Ontario's doctors want to work with government to fix health care
October 2022
CBC Listen
: OMA looks at impact of the pandemic on breast cancer
CP24: Doctor seeing more advanced cases of breast cancer after drop in mammograms during pandemic: OMA
CTV News: Pandemic impacts breast cancer
Medscape: Canadian doctors call for mental health funding
AM 800: A call to fix the health-care system – Dr. Zacharias in Windsor
AM: 800: Medical organizations call for new mental health funding
Blackburn News: Report asks Ontario for funding to treat mental health and addictions
Yahoo: Medical organizations call for new funding for mental health and addictions
September 2022
The Toronto Star: Ontario doctors want to build stand-alone surgical centres to help clear wait lists
The Toronto Star:
Ontario saw more than 80 ER closures this summer
The Ottawa Citizen: Medical association calls for high-demand procedure referral system
AM 800: Three solutions that could ease the strain on the health-care system
Yahoo: OMA proposes three immediate solutions for Ontario's health-care system
SooToday: Medical association president asks for compassion for Bill 7
Timmins Today: Ontario doctors offer immediate solutions to health care crisis
CTV Your Morning: Solutions to ease the health care crisis
Muskoka 411: OMA proposes three immediate solutions for Ontario's health-care system
105.9 The Region:
OMA president on three solutions for health care
CP24: OMA says 40 per cent of kids are up to date on vaccines
CTV Ottawa Morning: OMA: routine immunizations down
CTV Northern Ontario: Medical experts remind caregivers about the importance of child vaccines
The London Free Press: Doctors' leader appeals to parents: Get kids up to date on all vaccines
The Kingston Whig Standard: OMA president stresses extent of physician burnout during Kingston visit
105.9 The Region: OMA President Dr. Rose Zacharias
CHCH: Bill 7: Ontario plans to bypass public hearings to pass controversial LTC bill
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OrilliaMatters: OMA president building relationships to help improve health care
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Global News London: Dr. Rose Zacharias speaks about doctor shortages, wait times and palliative care
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iHeartRadio: Dr. Rose Zacharias speaks to
NewsTalk
1290 CJBK
CP24: Dr.Zacharias speaks about the OMA’s pre-budget submission
CTV News Barrie: Dr. Rose Zacharias highlights health-care priorities
CP24: Dr. Zacharias speaks ahead of federal health care funding announcement
iheartradio.ca:
Dr. Zacharias talks about improving health-care
Pentictonherald.ca:
Ontario signals acceptance of health deal, raises concerns about funding timelines
The Toronto Star: Doug Ford says Trudeau must spend more on health care
The Toronto Star:
Dr. Zacharias speaks to CTV Barrie about the doctor shortage
CHML:
Dr. Zacharias speaks ahead of the announcement on federal funding for health-care
The Toronto Star:
Canadian doctors spend millions of hours on unnecessary paperwork: report
Medscape.com:
Ontario Government Enlarges Role of Ambulatory Clinics
CBC News:
Why it's hard to find a family doctor — and what's being done about it
Orillia News:
Orillia doctor, officials weigh in on plan for private clinics
January 2023
CTV News: Emergency rooms not strained by virtual care; research study says
CityNews Ottawa: No evidence enrolled patients subbed ER for virtual family doctor visits: OMA study
CP24: Ontario patients did not go to ER instead of in-person doctor visits: study
The Globe and Mail: The rise of virtual care isn’t driving ER visits, study says
CBC Listen: Virtual care isn't driving up visits to the ER
The Toronto Star: Virtual doctor visits didn't send patients to ERs: study
CTV News Channel: Dr. Zacharias speaks about surgery clinics
CBC News Network: Dr. Zacharias speaks about surgery clinics
CTV News: Plans to address surgical backlog
Global News Radio Vancouver: Dr. Zacharias Interview about surgery clinics
Global News Radio in London: Dr. Zacharias interview about surgery clinics
Reuters: Canadian province's health-care fix raises fears of new strain on public system
CBC News: If cutting surgical wait lists is the only goal, Doug Ford's plan could work
The Globe and Mail: Ontario to boost surgeries at private clinics, asserts change won’t affect public health care system
CBC News
: More money is a must, but health-care delivery also needs a major rethink, doctors say
The Globe and Mail
: What the rest of the country can learn from Ontario’s family doctor payment model
Yahoo: Ontario's accreditation program won't alleviate doctor shortage, experts say
CTV News: Tips on maintaining mental health this Christmas
The Toronto Star: Want to avoid COVID, RSV and flu this holiday? Here’s doctors’ advice
Midland News: Ontario Medical Association offers mental health tips
December 2022
The Globe and Mail: Ontario reviving plans for program that fast-tracks foreign-trained doctors into workforce
The Globe and Mail: Virtual walk-in clinics may contribute more strain to health care system: Ontario Medical Association
CityNews: With pediatric hospitals under pressure, Ontario's medical association is offering guidance
CTV Your Morning: Fixing the healthcare crisis
CBC News: Children are dying from flu. Some provinces are slow to report it — and these experts say that's dangerous
CBC News: Northern Ontario's doctor shortage isn't improving, says Ontario Medical Association
CMA: National, provincial, territorial medical organizations urge governments to collaborate to fix health-system crisis
November 2022
CityNews Ottawa: OMA heads to QP
CityNews Radio
: OMA heads to QP, Virtual vs. In-person
Medscape
: Canadian caregivers feel overburdened and undervalued
CityNews
: Ontario Doctors meeting with MPPs at Queen’s Park to discuss health-care system
The Cambridge Times
: What is RSV? Respiratory syncytial virus reported in children earlier than usual this year
CBC Radio: OMA offers suggestions to improve health care
The Canadian Press: Ontario’s doctors push province to create non-profit surgical centres for backlog
NewsTalk1010: Ontario Medical Association President Dr Rose Zacharias explains to Moore In The Morning why she is calling on the province to create non-profit, single surgery centres to ease the pressure on the health care system.
The Toronto Sun: Ford is letting top bureaucrats stall clearing of health backlog
The Globe and Mail: Ontario children’s hospitals limiting services as they deal with respiratory-illness surge
CBC Power and Politics podcast
: Ontario's top doctor strongly recommends people wear masks in public indoor spaces
CBC News
: Nearly 20 per cent of Toronto family doctors planning to close practices in next 5 years, survey finds
CTV News: Why you should wear a mask even if it's not mandated
AM 800 CKLW: Masking Again?
CTV News: Ontario doctors suggest masking, vaccine catch-up
The London Free Press
: Masks, vaccine catch-up urged ahead of anticipated 'triple threat' viral season
My Algoma Manitoulin Now
: Wearing masks recommended by Ontario agency
CTV News
: Health-care funding talks in limbo
Global News: No, COVID vaccines don’t cause infertility. Debunking 5 myths about women’s health
Yahoo: Ontario's doctors want to work with government to fix health care
October 2022
CBC Listen
: OMA looks at impact of the pandemic on breast cancer
CP24: Doctor seeing more advanced cases of breast cancer after drop in mammograms during pandemic: OMA
CTV News: Pandemic impacts breast cancer
Medscape: Canadian doctors call for mental health funding
AM 800: A call to fix the health-care system – Dr. Zacharias in Windsor
AM: 800: Medical organizations call for new mental health funding
Blackburn News: Report asks Ontario for funding to treat mental health and addictions
Yahoo: Medical organizations call for new funding for mental health and addictions
September 2022
The Toronto Star: Ontario doctors want to build stand-alone surgical centres to help clear wait lists
The Toronto Star:
Ontario saw more than 80 ER closures this summer
The Ottawa Citizen: Medical association calls for high-demand procedure referral system
AM 800: Three solutions that could ease the strain on the health-care system
Yahoo: OMA proposes three immediate solutions for Ontario's health-care system
SooToday: Medical association president asks for compassion for Bill 7
Timmins Today: Ontario doctors offer immediate solutions to health care crisis
CTV Your Morning: Solutions to ease the health care crisis
Muskoka 411: OMA proposes three immediate solutions for Ontario's health-care system
105.9 The Region:
OMA president on three solutions for health care
CP24: OMA says 40 per cent of kids are up to date on vaccines
CTV Ottawa Morning: OMA: routine immunizations down
CTV Northern Ontario: Medical experts remind caregivers about the importance of child vaccines
The London Free Press: Doctors' leader appeals to parents: Get kids up to date on all vaccines
The Kingston Whig Standard: OMA president stresses extent of physician burnout during Kingston visit
105.9 The Region: OMA President Dr. Rose Zacharias
CHCH: Bill 7: Ontario plans to bypass public hearings to pass controversial LTC bill
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