We DEMAND: More Public Hospitals in Brampton
BRAMPTON AND CALEDON HAVE A COMBINED POPULATION OF 827,500 (STATSCAN) & ONE FULLY FUNCTIONING HOSPITAL WITH ONLY 645 BEDS. IT IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE THE EPICENTRE OF HALLWAY HEALTHCARE.
- Over 80% of all patients spend over 8 hours in Brampton’s ER before being admitted (2022).
- Brampton and Caledon have the same number of Emergency Rooms as when Brampton had a population of 5000 people.
- Brampton Civic Hospital and Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness are both P3 “Public Private Partnership” facilities, with buildings and non-medical services not owned by Ontario, but by a private consortium called William Osler Health System, who has a 25 year contract to the government.
- The total cost of the Brampton P3 hospital is more than $300 million higher in present dollars (2003/04) than if the hospital was built publicly. This meant that Peel Memorial Centre could not be opened as a full service hospital as was promised.
- Brampton City Council declared a state of health emergency in January 2020, and called for 850 new hospital beds to be created in the expansion of Peel Memorial Centre. There will only be 250 beds in the expansion.
- Brampton Civic treated 4,352 patients in hallways in a single year, according to a 2017 briefing note obtained by the provincial NDP.
- Brampton has high traffic & 750K people, plus residents of Caledon who already have to travel farther and therefore wait longer just to arrive.
- It‘s dangerous to have just one hospital to which to bring critical patients.
- According to the 2021 census, 80.6% of Bramptonians are a visible minority, and 52.9% were born outside of Canada. The institutional neglect of the health of a majority-immigrant, majority POC city by the Ontario government is very telling of how resources are being prioritized in Ontario.
What Can I Do?
Attend our Protest on April 22 outside Brampton Civic Hospital!
Give Your Feedback to William Osler Health System
Check Out Our Action Page!
LEARN MORE:
Ontario Health Coalition Analysis
Ontario Hospital Crisis Province-Wide and By Community
OHC: Brampton P3 Audit: Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in ‘Mistakes’ in Brampton P3 Finances
News Media
The Pointer: Brampton’s Abandoned Healthcare System: “Why do we have to suffer?”
The Globe and Mail: In this PPP, taxpayers are the ones who paid
Additional Scholarly Sources
OECD: Hospital Beds and Occupation
Canadian Medical Association Journal: Failing grade for public–private partnership hospitals
BrCHC and PRHC in the News!
Not enough South Asian women in Peel get pap tests — and it could be a matter of ‘life and death’
The Pointer: Peel Region Health Coalition organizing referendum on private versus public healthcare
Brampton Caledon Health Coalition 