Total cost: $18.4 million
Exactly how the 100 new continuing care aides hired in 2021 will be divvied up between long-term care homes and private homes is unclear, though the Saskatchewan Party did give some indication of its intentions when it made the promise during the fall 2020 provincial election.
Under that plan, 300 aides would be hired at a total cost of $18.4 million. One-hundred and eighty of the 300 aides would go into long-term care homes, which have been criticized before and during the pandemic for being inadequately staffed. One new care aide for every 50 residents of long-term care facilities, the Saskatchewan Party said of the 180 new aides.
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