The funds hospitals use to pay day-to-day bills have plummeted by $2.2 billion since 2020, says new report

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ontario’s hospital crisis has hit a boiling point, says new report released today by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing the latest data, Pushed over the brink: the escalating assault on Ontario’s hospitals highlights the dire conditions that hospitals are facing in the wake of Ford’s austerity agenda. In the past six years Ontario hospitals have seen a massive drop in their working capital, the funds available to cover daily expenses, includi