Long-term care facilities throughout the province have dealt with COVID-19 outbreaks and staffing shortages. Now, employees will need to leave their jobs if they have not received a dose by Oct. 12.
Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province's cultural homes.The proposed regulatory amendment would enable placement co-ordinators to prioritize cultural admissions within the 'crisis' category, which largely consists of people waiting in hospital.
But advocates and operators in the sector say the new admission rules have proven to be a bit too blunt of an instrument when it comes to the several dozen cultural long-term care homes across the province, which cater to seniors from Korean, Jewish and francophone communities, for example.Controversial law designed to free up hospital beds to be tested in Ontario court
The previous long-term care minister, Stan Cho, said in the spring he was actively working on a solution, and now the current minister has posted a proposed regulatory amendment that would enable placement co-ordinators to prioritize cultural admissions within the "crisis" category, which largely consists of people waiting in hospital.
Lisa Levin, the CEO of AdvantAge Ontario, representing the province's non-profit long-term-care homes, said the proposed new rules will definitely help make life better for long-term care residents, many of whom have dementia.
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