Hundreds of million of dollars are desperately needed to stabilize the home-care workforce in Ontario, the association representing organizations providing that care said as it urged the province to speed up delivery of promised funds.
The province pledged in last year's budget to spend $1-billion for better home care over three years.
Both the premier and VanderBent were disappointed at the new health-care deal offered by the federal government that did not provide new money for home care. Ford has said he is continuing to negotiate with Ottawa on more money for home care. About 900,000 Ontarians receive home care annually, with about 730,000 in the publicly funded system, according to Home Care Ontario.
The province did not answer questions about the request to fast-track the allocated home-care funding.
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