17 July, 2009

Health Care Options Ontario

The Health Care Options website from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care aims to connect Ontario residents quickly with the local health care they need.
It provides contact information, including names, addresses and hours of operation, for frontline health care services in your community, and includes descriptions and links to Telehealth Ontario (call to get health advice from a registered nurse (helps you find family health care in your community), Healthcare Connect (helps you to find health care in your community), Community Care Access Centres (access to government-funded homes and community services and long-term care, Connex (alcohol, gambling and mental health services). Factsheets in over 20 different languages can be printed off from the website.
For analysis of the health care systems in the U.S. and Canada, see the report One Issue, Two Voices: Health Care in Crisis. The Drive for Health Reform in Canada and the United States