'A crisis for home care,' droves of Ontario healthcare workers leaving for jobs at hospitals, LTC homes
But when Marcia's condition deteriorated and she needed palliative care about a year ago, Marcaccio reached out for help from Ontario's home care system.
The organization achieved a 95-per-cent referral acceptance rate before the pandemic, meaning it could fulfil the vast majority of requests for home care. The current rate is 60 per cent.Home care workers left their jobs for better pay in hospitals and long-term care homes, she said. “What we've really seen right now is a huge cannibalization of our home care workforce, especially when it comes to nursing.”Nurses left the industry early in the pandemic when assessment and testing centres popped up across the province. The drain continued when nurses were needed for mass vaccination clinics and later for contact tracing, he said.
Ontario's former Liberal government had increased funding for home care so seniors could stay longer in their homes. Of the money allotted to long-term care, Denmark spends 64 per cent on home and community-based care, Sinha said. The remainder goes to nursing homes.
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