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Joanna Frketich

Reporter · CA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Hamilton Spectator
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Jul 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joanna Frketich

    Patients returning to specialized ICUs after flood at Hamilton General (opens the original)

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    Hamilton General Hospital is open to out-of-town critically ill patients again following a flood in the intensive care units (ICU). The regional trauma centre was shut down Sunday to most patients from outside of Hamilton needing ICU care after a burst pipe at about 2 p.m. caused a Code Aqua for flooding in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and the medical-surgical intensive care unit (MSICU). The flood closed nine ICU beds and forced the evacuation of some of the city’s sickest patients to

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joanna Frketich

    Man stabbed in 'random attack' at Juravinski Hospital ER (opens the original)

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    A 71-year-old man was stabbed in what police called a random attack in the emergency department waiting room at Juravinski Hospital. Hamilton police said the man did not know the 23-year-old woman, with no fixed address. She was arrested and charged with assault after the attack on Monday around 9:30 p.m. A knife was located at the scene that police believe was the weapon used in the waiting room stabbing at the Mountain hospital at 711 Concession St. Police said the woman was there for a perso

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Joanna Frketich

    The struggle between Hamilton hospital cuts and private clinic growth (opens the original)

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    The cost to public hospitals of the province’s increasing investment in private surgical and diagnostic centres is “playing out dramatically in Hamilton,” says a union representing health-care workers losing their jobs to budget cuts. “You’ve got a government that is deliberately underfunding the public hospital systems in this community on the one hand — and on the other hand, it’s funding up these private surgical centres,” said Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council

  4. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Joanna Frketich

    Ontario on track to lose 2,522 nurses and 2,407 hospital beds (opens the original)

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    Days after Hamilton’s largest hospital network told its staff about deep cuts, the province’s financial watchdog warned underfunding is putting the province at risk of losing thousands of nurses and beds. The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) flagged in a report Wednesday that Ontario is on a path to lose 2,522 provincially funded nurses and 2,407 funded hospital beds by the fiscal year 2028/29. Just five days earlier on Sept. 18, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) told its staff

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Joanna Frketich

    City share of public health bill going up while province pays less (opens the original)

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    The city is footing an increasing amount of the bill for public health, raising questions about sustainability and the consequences of refusing to cover the gap. As the 2027 budget process starts, the city contributing “more than its fair share” to the growing costs was raised by multiple members of the Board of Health Sept. 21. “Why is the municipal share here so much larger than the senior levels of government and what are we getting for that?” Coun. Craig Cassar said. “This is a sig

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