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Ontario’s Long-term Care COVID-19 Commission has exposed the staggering failure of the provincial government to protect seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, but nothing in the report should really come as a big surprise.
Over the years, numerous studies, media investigations, caregiver accounts and home inspection reports have revealed severe failings in long-term care, and most of what the commission laid out, in excruciating detail, was already well documented. But successive Ontario governments just didn’t care enough to take any action. These were frail people in the waning moments of their lives and governments simply parked them in homes and turned a blind eye to their suffering. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Never again. The Ford government’s deathly mismanagement of COVID-19 in Ontario’s nursing homes is documented in grisly detail in the scathing 322-page report by Ontario’s Long Term Care COVID-19 Commission’s, released Friday. Further, it explains how the sector, its residents and staff were rendered vulnerable and unprepared by 30 years of successive government neglect. Ontario, rich in economic and social resources, had one of the worst rates of nursing home deaths in the industrialized world.
This comprehensive, accessibly written report doesn’t stop there. Its 85 meticulous recommendations lay out a plan to fix Ontario’s long-term care system and ensure this completely preventable tragedy never happens again.
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Never again. The Ford government’s deathly mismanagement of COVID-19 in Ontario’s nursing homes is documented in grisly detail in the scathing 322-page report by Ontario’s Long Term Care COVID-19 Commission’s, released Friday. Further, it explains how the sector, its residents and staff were rendered vulnerable and unprepared by 30 years of successive government neglect. Ontario, rich in economic and social resources, had one of the worst rates of nursing home deaths in the industrialized world.
This comprehensive, accessibly written report doesn’t stop there. Its 85 meticulous recommendations lay out a plan to fix Ontario’s long-term care system and ensure this completely preventable tragedy never happens again.
LTC report recommendations draw thumbs up; now it s time for Ontario to act, advocates say “It’s all there in the report, what needs to be done, but it’s going to take commitment and investment.
Author of the article: Bruce Deachman
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Grace Welch, advocacy committee chair of the Champlain Region Family Council Network, says the recommendations of Ontario s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission will go a long way to fixing the province s long-term care system, but the government needs to act. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia
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The recommendations released Friday by Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission are getting top marks from those who have been advocating for wholesale reform of the sector. What those people want to see now, though, is the implementation by the province of those proposals.