Comment: Long-term care needs a long-term fix

B.C.’s care home residents and those who care for them deserve better.

A commentary by the secretary-business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, B.C.’s largest health-care union.

In the pandemic’s aftermath, care home workers are burnt out as a widespread staffing shortage undermines our ability to care for our aging population. Her story is a familiar one. Almost all B.C. care homes are publicly-funded, but about a third are operated by private for-profit operators, a third by non-profits and a third by our public health authorities.

It wasn’t always this way. Twenty years ago, a province-wide collective agreement covering most publicly-funded care homes standardized working and caring conditions.

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