{"id":2811,"date":"2026-03-15T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2026-03-15T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:22:06","slug":"respect-nurses-protect-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"Respect Nurses. Protect Patients."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An early morning start for President Laura Walton &amp; hundreds of ONA members in Cambridge today!<br>Joined by Ontario Health Coalition Natalie Mehra and MPPs, Robin Lennox and Ainslie Clancy, workers delivered a pink slip to Southbridge Care Homes. They called on CEO Ryan Bell to prioritize healthcare over profits and to ensure nurse to client ratios!<br>\u201cWe are calling on Nursing Home CEOs to negotiate new collective agreements with fair wage increases to recruit and retain staff.\u201d said ONA president Erin Ariss<br>Southbridge Care Homes is a private, for profit long term care provider who made headlines when the Canadian military needed to be called in following reports of deplorable conditions during the COVID 19 pandemic.<br>Post Credit : Ontario Nurses&#8217; Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2-1024x880.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2-1024x880.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2-1536x1319.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofl-fb-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning start for President Laura Walton &amp; hundreds of ONA members in Cambridge today!Joined by Ontario Health Coalition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}