News and Updates

Ontario Health’s work includes leading transformation in many areas of the province’s health care system. We support health care providers and health system partners through regular communication, including news, updates, memos and operational direction.

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2026-June-02

Simcoe County Hospitals Team Up to Reduce Surgical Wait Times
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre surgeons can now practice at Georgian Bay General Hospital, making better use of available operating rooms and easing pressure on the already stretched regional system.
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System Capacity
Central
2026
2026-May-04

Operational Direction: Priorities for Spring/Summer 2026
A review of year-over-year improvements in access, flow, and capacity across Ontario’s health system, along with Spring/Summer priorities to support continued system coordination.
Health System Update
System Capacity
2026
2026-March-18

Joint Effort Cuts Pediatric Surgery Wait Times
The Hospital for Sick Children and Ontario Health co-led the development of a program designed to help improve access and reduce wait times for pediatric surgical and endoscopy procedures.
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Health Human Resources Staffing
2026
2026-March-02

Reducing Wait Times Through Coordinated Care
Since launching in April 2021, Cataract Central Intake – an initiative supported by Ontario Health – has delivered significant improvements in surgical access, quality and efficiency.
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Digital Health
West
2026
2025-December-23

Memo: Updates on Digital Initiatives
An update on digital initiatives as part of the provincial digital strategy, building on previous operational direction.
Health System Update
Digital Health
2025
2024-November-21

My CancerIQ: Learning Your Personal Cancer Risk
When it comes to reducing cancer rates and deaths, prevention and early detection are essential. That’s why knowing your risk is so important. Ontario Health has an online tool to help you learn about your cancer risk factors and make personal health choices to reduce your risk of certain cancers.
Story
Cancer
2024
2024-October-28

Improving Care for People with Eating Disorders
Ontario Health’s Eating Disorders quality standard addresses care for people of all ages with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.
Mental Health and Addictions
2024
2024-September-12

Supportive Housing Services in Ontario Health West
Supportive housing development in Guelph, Ontario ensures residents with complex, high-acuity physical, mental, and substance use health needs receive supports to manage health and well-being, improving their quality of life.
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Mental Health and Addictions
West
2024
2024-August-14

Operational Direction: Home First
Actions and approaches that will support patient flow and overall system efficiency, with a focus on supporting patients at home and returning patients home with the appropriate supports.
Health System Update
System Capacity
2024
2024-May-06

Insight: The Mental Health Continuum
Although “mental health” and “mental illness” are often used interchangeably, they are not the same. Mental health can fluctuate and can exist in or outside the context of diagnosable mental illness.
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Mental Health and Addictions
2024
2024-March-25

Be a Donor Month Encourages Ontarians to Register as Organ and Tissue Donors
As Ontario Health (Trillium Gift of Life Network) prepares for its annual Be a Donor Month campaign this April, the focus remains on raising awareness and promoting advocacy for organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Ontario.
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Health Human Resources Staffing, Organ and Tissue
2024
2023-November-22

Register to Give the Gift of Life This Giving Tuesday
As Giving Tuesday approaches, Ontarians are reminded they have the power to alter lives – and it only takes a few minutes to register to be an organ and tissue donor.
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Organ and Tissue
2023
2023-May-30

Welcoming New Provincial Head, Medical Imaging
Julian Dobranowski, a practicing radiologist and champion for quality improvement, is Ontario Health’s first Provincial Head, Medical Imaging.
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Health Human Resources Staffing
2023

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