Ontario will introduce steep new financial penalties for long-term care homes as part of long-awaited legislation to govern a sector, where more than 4,000 residents and counting have died since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new legislation, which was detailed by Minister of Long-Term Care Rod Phillips on Thursday afternoon, was first promised in the wake of a scathing report from Ontario's Long-Term Care Commission last spring which suggested that there was no plan to prepare the sector for the pandemic, effectively leaving residents as “easy targets.”
The legislation will also prohibit any individual convicted of an offence under the act from “working for, volunteering for, or sitting on the board of a licensee or long-term care home” while also empowering provincial inspectors to issue various compliance actions, such as additional staff training.
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