Ontario Renews Summer ER Staffing Funding for One More Year

Ontario Renews Summer ER Staffing Funding for One More Year
Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones answers questions at the daily COVID-19 briefing at Queen's Park in Toronto on Jun. 29, 2020. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press
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Ontario is renewing funding that helps rural and northern hospitals bolster emergency room staffing through the summer, but says the program will end after this year.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones has touted that the program helped avoid nearly 1,500 temporary ER closures last summer, but while it expired on March 31, she did not announce until today that the government would renew it for another summer.