TORONTO — Ontario failed to meet its own legislated 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.
The province says it has since reached its goal for the 2023-24 fiscal year, but that happened outside of the timeframe the Progressive Conservative government set out in a 2021 law.
The updated version of the report says that in the first quarter of the 2024-25 financial year, Ontario"exceeded" its direct hours of care target from the year before. The document said that, as of this year, there is a need for 13,200 additional nurses and 37,700 personal support workers in Ontario. "The solution, we believe, I believe, is to provide workers with full-time jobs, middle-class wages, strong benefits and retirement security," McKenzie said.
He said that raises the question of the quality of care residents are receiving, even if the targets for average hours of care are met. Agency staff are critical to homes' operation, but they cost far more than regular staff members, said Lisa Levin, CEO of AdvantAge Ontario, which represents the province's non-profit long-term care homes.One solution that Levin and other community health organizations have been urging is for the government to equalize wages within the health system as a whole.
But when the government introduced a $3-per-hour wage enhancement for personal support workers in long-term care during the pandemic, that left registered practical nurses earning the same or less, Levin said.
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