{"id":3435,"date":"2016-01-19T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2017-04-03T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:02:57","slug":"toh-supports-changes-to-ontario-hospital-parking-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/toh-supports-changes-to-ontario-hospital-parking-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"TOH supports changes to Ontario hospital parking rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 19, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 On Monday, the Ontario government announced that hospitals with fees of $10 per day or more will be frozen at their current rates, and will be required to offer five-day, ten-day, and monthly passes at a discount of at least 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At $13 per day, TOH\u2019s patient and visitor parking is the lowest of all hospitals in Ottawa. The hospital also already offers discounted weekly, monthly and 15-day passes to ease parking fees for patients and visitors \u2013 the monthly pass falls well below the Ministry-recommended 50 percent discount. Patients and visitors can buy passes at campus security offices 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>All passes have in-and-out privileges. For example, patients who have paid for a day pass can leave and return to the hospital \u2013 or to any other TOH campus \u2013 as often as needed on that day.<\/p>\n<p>TOH will soon be introducing a five- and ten-day pass option so that patients and visitors have more options.<\/p>\n<p>Our parking rates for patients and visitors have not risen in over a decade. TOH\u2019s total parking revenue in 2015 was $12M. Parking revenues go towards purchasing medical equipment, investing in research, and maintaining our parking lots (including safety, lighting, paving, and technology).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rates for patient and visitor parking at TOH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>1\/2 hour: $ 3.50<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Day maximum (12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.): \u00a0$13.00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Weekly pass: \u00a0$42.25<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Monthly pass: \u00a0$92.00<br \/>\n15-day pass (non-consecutive): \u00a0$105<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19, 2015\u00a0\u2013 On Monday, the Ontario government announced that hospitals with fees of $10 per day or more will be frozen at their current rates, and will be required to offer five-day, ten-day, and monthly passes at a discount of at least 50 percent. At $13 per day, TOH\u2019s patient and visitor parking is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}