{"id":946114,"date":"2026-10-25T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:32:10","slug":"what-to-know-about-cuts-to-registered-nurses-at-londons-st-josephs-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946114\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about cuts to registered nurses at London&#8217;s St. Joseph&#8217;s hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA), which represents 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals, called on Doug Ford\u2019s government for answers after the organization announced St. Joseph\u2019s Health Care was cutting more than 120 registered nursing positions at the London hospital\u2019s Finch Family Mental Health Care Building. LFP reporter Brian Williams digs into the details:<\/p>\n<p>WHAT\u2019S GOING ON? <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ONA raised concerns on Oct. 16 after the union announced St. Joseph\u2019s was cutting the more than 120 RN positions. The same day, hospital officials issued a statement saying the \u201cexact numbers will be determined as we work with our union partners to reduce actual job loss through vacancies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Joseph\u2019s officials noted they were creating 82 new full-time and 24 part-time direct care roles, including registered practical nurses, while 83 full-time and 31 part-time registered nursing positions would be eliminated, adding, \u201cno official layoff notices have been issued to individual RNs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA), which represents 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals, called on Doug Ford\u2019s government for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[323796,49,48,41005,315523,41004,84,392,311860,312958],"class_list":["post-946114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-323796","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-category-health-care","tag-category-london-news","tag-category-news","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-london-free-press","tag-london-health-sciences-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}