OHA Partners with GTA Hotels to Provide Free Hotel Rooms to Families in Need

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

During this holiday season, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is partnering with the Greater Toronto Hotel Association (GTHA) on a “Christmas Holiday Emergency Program.” This program has been designed to provide a free hotel room to families in need, who have the misfortune of having an immediate family member in a GTA hospital in and around the holidays.

Some GTA hospitals have already worked with select hotels on programs like this in the past, and they have been met with much success and positive feedback. We hope that we can help to build on this success, and work together as a community of hospitals to assist as many individuals/families as we can.

The program is available to GTA hospitals from December 22, 2004 through to December 30, 2004. While the hotel membership of the GTHA spans an area containing a good number of our Region 3 hospitals, it will not include those hospitals in Bowmanville, Oshawa, Port Perry, Whitby, Ajax and Newmarket.

For more details and how to use the program.

For further information:
Cara Francis, OHA Public Affairs
416-205-1371