The Health Standards Organization released updated standards Tuesday, including that residents should get at least four hours of direct care every day and that staff receive adequate, and competitive compensation
TORONTO — Ontario will take a look at new national standards for long-term care, the minister responsible for the sector said Tuesday, but wouldn't want to "water down" what the province is already doing to improve care.Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra noted that the province has already legislated a goal of an average of four hours of direct care per resident per day by 2025.
The law was introduced and passed in 2021. A military report published in 2020 after Canadian Armed Forces teams were deployed to seven long-term care homes in Ontario included accounts of aggressive feeding that caused choking, bleeding infections and residents crying for help for hours. Along with strengthening compliance, Meadus said the province should take particular note of the section on workforce and recommendations to pay long-term care staff more. Ontario introduced a pay bump for personal support workers during the pandemic and made it permanent last year.
"You can have the best legislation in the world, but...that's going to affect the quality, if you just don't have enough staff." Ontario has come under fire from advocates for a law that allows hospital patients awaiting a spot in long-term care to be sent to a home not of their choosing up to 150 kilometres away. But Calandra said that law doesn't conflict with the principles in the national standards."There is not one person that I've spoken to - I've visited homes across this province - who has said that they want to go back to a hospital after being in a long-term care home.
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