Long-term care operators call on Ontario government to address severe staffing shortage

Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail

Many personal support workers quit their jobs in August after the provincial top-up pay during the pandemic ended. Meanwhile, the province’s registered nurses association has cancelled an emergency program that recruited front-line staff for the health care sector, and nursing students are choosing hospitals rather than long-term care homes for their clinical placements.

Doris Grinspun, chief executive officer of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, is so frustrated with the government’s lack of action, she announced on July 31 that she will not reopen the VIANurse program if the province is hit with a second wave of the virus. “The government knows that staff in long-term care homes are the backbone of the sector, and we are committed to using every resource available to support long-term care homes and staff as we work to stop the spread of COVID-19,” a ministry spokesperson said in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail.

Number of people over 85 quadruples from 2011 to 2031. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

Give people a fair wage, full time work plus benefits, problem solved.

So the cockroaches have come out of the woodwork. That’s a hard no. Stop paying your shareholders, put those monies back into staffing and resident care

hmm. capitalism. how about paying a decent salary with benefits. would have lots of applicants, many already trained. and why do taxpayers have to pay for training for private companies. defer some of those dividends and 9% interest payments.

ONlongtermcare Not acceptable Do better.

LTC are going the way of private prisons in the States. fordnation will reduce regulations to improve profits for these home owners at the expense of decency of care and treatment of seniors on Ontario.

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Advocates sound alarms as long-term care homes see COVID-19 cases riseAdvocates worry that long-term care homes devastated by COVID-19 earlier this year could see another wave of deadly cases this fall if authorities don’t clamp down on new outbreaks. “Up to 90% of people testing COVID-19 positive carried barely any virus” b/c PCR tests too sensitive & “detect.. genetic fragments—leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk” Meanwhile: Any retirement home or LTC facility that from September 1st has gone into and goes into outbreak and has spread among staff/residents needs to be investigated and criminally charged. Shame on them for not learning the first time around
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