Long Term Care Homes

• Long-term care workers across N.S. take strike votes, prepare for job action

  Workers gathered for a rally Wednesday outside Premier Tim Houston’s office in Westville, N.S.

  Health

  Oct 23
  
• Ontario just shy of meeting target of four hours direct care for LTC residents

  While the government met its interim targets in the following two years, starting at three hours of direct care, it did not reach the third-year or final targets.

  Canada

  Aug 13
  
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• Ontario proposes allowing nurse practitioners to oversee LTC medical care

  Ontario long-term care homes could soon have nurse practitioners overseeing residents' medical care instead of physicians, a move applauded by some but not supported by doctors.

  Politics

  Dec 11, 2024
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• Ontario missed interim target for providing hands-on care to long-term care residents

  Ontario failed to meet its own target this past year for the average number of hands-on hours of care that long-term care residents receive, a newly updated document shows.

  Canada

  Nov 25, 2024
• Ontario proposes fix to issue of dwindling long-term care cultural admissions

  Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province's cultural homes.

  Canada

  Nov 19, 2024
• Ontario family receives massive hospital bill as part of LTC law, refuses to pay

  An Ontario woman has received an $8,400 bill from a Windsor hospital after she refused to put her mother in a nursing home she hated – she says she has no intention of paying it. 

  Health

  May 9, 2024
• 2 Ontario LTC homes closing in part due to requirement for sprinkler system

  There's no doubt that fire safety is important, but losing long-term care spaces at a time of such critical need doesn't make sense, said Lisa Sharp.

  Canada

  May 3, 2024
• Ontario may not meet LTC direct care target due to staff shortages: document

  There is a "systemic shortage of nurses" across all sectors, according to a briefing document for Long-Term Care Minister Stan Cho when he took over the file in September. 

  Health

  Apr 16, 2024
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• Ontario won’t divulge fines for hospital patients refusing LTC transfers

  Ontario is refusing to divulge the amount of money that seven patients have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing.

  Politics

  Apr 11, 2024
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• ‘I’m not paying it’: Ontario family furious over $400/day hospital fine for not moving to LTC

  Campeau chose neither – the family has been racking up a monster bill since March 11 that remains unpaid while her mother has stayed on at a Windsor, Ont., hospital. 

  Health

  Apr 10, 2024