2024-09-28 from theglobeandmail.com

Anthony Dale is president and chief executive officer of the Ontario Hospital Association.

Over the past three decades, Ontario hospitals have become highly efficient, improving the quality of, and access to, patient care, while increasing transparency and mobilizing like never before in response to the COVID pandemic. Now, Ontario continues to spend the least per capita in the country on hospitals while producing some of the best results when it comes to quality and access.

As we look to the future, though, it’s clear that we have reached a critical turning point. Ontario’s health system is grappling with high inflation, rapid population growth, increasingly complex health needs and huge pressures on its existing capacity.

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