Hospital orderly faces sexual assault charge at Ottawa Hospital’s General campus

Ottawa police charged a 46-year-old hospital orderly with one count of sexual assault Friday. Police said the man, who was employed at the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus, was charged after police received a complaint from a patient. The woman, who made the complaint, had surgery in early December and alleges

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Hospitals main source of complaints, patients making them for the ‘right reasons’: report

TORONTO — Many patients, their families and caregivers worry filing a complaint about their health care could lead to reprisal, says Ontario’s Patient Ombudsman, and there is still work to do to combat that perception. In her first ever annual report, which will be released Thursday, Patient Ombudsman Christine Elliott

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