May 20, 2021 TORONTO – With licenses for more than 30,000 long-term care beds set to expire in 2025 and 15,000 new beds in the works, a group of eminent public policy experts is calling on Queen’s Park to develop them all as public non-profit beds as a first step in “an orderly and phased reduction of for-profit long-term care in Ontario.” “The primary obligation of a for-profit long-term care operator is its fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value,” says public interest lawyer Steven Shrybman, one of nine co-authors of a new report,
Recommendations to Transform Long-Term Care in Ontario . “That priority is clearly incompatible with the delivery of necessary health care services, where the first and overarching priority must be to ensure the health and well-being of residents.”
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Back row; Linda Cooper, left, Bev Moir, Sue Williams, Mary Wheeler, Janice Waddell and Gail Donner. Front row; Bev Simpson, left, and Dorothy Ferguson are pictured at the 2018 Registered Nurses’ Foundation of Ontario Gala of Honorary Life Members in attendance.
Courtesy of Registered Nurses’ Foundation of Ontario
The organizers: Mary Wheeler and Gail Donner
The pitch: Raising $450,000
The cause: To fund awards for nursing innovation