When help means losing choice: The reality of rural mental health care Hospitals - including in Northern Ontario - not designated to provide such care receive mental health patients with few tools to copeArticle content Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s two cottage-country hospitals are not built for mental health care. Try refreshing your browser, or When help means losing choice: The reality of rural mental health care Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. The data suggest the kind of mental health care you get in Ontario depends on where you live. She has seen her region’s challenges in providing mental health care in a system that “fails at outpatient psychiatry across the board.” Article content Neither Ontario’s Ministry of Health nor Health Minister Sylvia Jones’s office responded to requests for comment about rural mental health care.