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MEDIA ADVISORY: Ground-breaking study of challenges faced by health care workers in the pandemic to be released in Northwestern Ontario on Monday

27 November 2020
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Event Information

  • Begins: 30 November 2020 @ 11:00 AM
  • Location: Kenora, ON

KENORA, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– A major new peer-reviewed academic study that delves into the challenges faced by front-line Ontario health care staff working under crisis conditions during the early months of the pandemic, will be released in Northwestern Ontario on Monday, November 30, 2020 at 11 a.m. 

The researchers chronicled (in real time) how front-line health care workers coped as COVID-19 unfolded. The study also makes key recommendations on what we must do differently as Ontario’s under-resourced health system faces the COVID-19 second wave.

Study co-author Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) will be in Kenora at the Super 8 hotel for a (live, in-person) media conference. The study’s principal authors Dr. Jim Brophy and Dr. Margaret Keith will join the media conference remotely to release their findings and answer media questions.

Brophy and Keith, who are affiliated with the University of Windsor, have previously published two studies on violence in Ontario’s hospitals (2017) and long-term care homes (2019).

Who:     Academic researchers Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith, with Michael Hurley, President of OCHU, the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Ontario.

What:    Media conference to release new study on health care workers’ lived experience during the pandemic.

Where: Breakfast Room, Super 8 Hotel, 240 Lakeview Drive, Kenora

When:   11 a.m., Monday, November 30, 2020

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For more information, please contact:

Zaid Noorsumar, CUPE Communications, 647-995-9859, znoorsumar@cupe.ca

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