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Report documents Ontario government’s ruinous role in pandemic’s ravaging of long-term care homes Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission submitted its final report to the province’s hard-right Progressive Conservative government at the end of last month. Its findings constitute a cogent condemnation of the failure of the Doug Ford-led Tory government to protect the province’s tens of thousands of elderly care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. In both Canada’s first and second waves of the pandemic Ontario’s chronically underfunded and profit-driven long-term care sector became the scene of mass infections and death. A member of the Canadian Armed Forces working at a Quebec nursing home (Canadian Dept. of Defence) ....
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 Article content 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. ....
Article content Who runs LTC homes, whether they are for-profit, non-profit or municipal, has been a hot-button issue in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken the lives of 3,757 LTC residents and 11 staff in the province in the past 14 months. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Let for-profits build LTC homes, and mission-driven entities run them, report says Back to video The 322-page final report notes that the province already has infrastructure paid upfront by private investors who receive a return on their capital with profit over time. Others actually operate the infrastructure once built. ....
Let for-profits build LTC homes, and 'mission-driven' entities run them, report says midnorthmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from midnorthmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ontario LTC COVID-19 Commission reveals their first batch of interviews by James Mackin Posted Feb 19, 2021 10:37 pm EDT Ontario Minister of Long Term Care Merrilee Fullerton answers questions during the daily briefing at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Thursday May 28, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn The Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission says they will be interviewing several provincial government officials in the coming week. NEW – The Long-Term Care Commission says it will interview Dr. David Williams on Monday, Health Minister Elliott on Wednesday and Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton on Friday. pic.twitter.com/ephXhMuQD2 On Monday, February 22nd, they will speak with Dr. David Williams, the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health. The following Wednesday, February 24th, they will speak with both Health Minister Christine Elliott, and Deputy Health Minister Helen Angus. And on Friday, February 26th, they’ll interview Long ....