Re: Globe and Mail Article

Hi Dom,

Thanks for the article. Private LTC is already a hot potato in Ontario.
Noticed (smaller) 12 bed LTCs waiting for CHSLD approvals in Quebec last
time I was in Montreal; caught in red tape. The bottomline is more people
in the community and/or senior living community will require home care.

Best regards,

Matt

Matt Vijayan, B.Sc., MBA, CCPE
Director of Sales, Canada
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On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 9:04 AM Domenic Maccarone <
dmaccarone@homecareassistance.com> wrote:

> Hi Matt and Timothy,
>
> Not sure if you saw this news!  Looks like some Privately owned Long Term
> Care Homes will not be renewing their licence in 2025.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Orr-Shaw, Sarah <Sarah.Orr-Shaw@smdhu.org>
> Date: Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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> Hello All,
>
> Sending on request from Gwen Kavanagh from Barrie CARP – my 2 cents are
> below!
>
> Globe and Mail Editorial April 14, 2023
>
> Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra kept calm and carried on
> this week when news broke that the operators of a number of privately
> operated long-term care homes in his province planned to get out of the
> business in the next few years.
>
> The story in The Globe and Mail
> <https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-toronto-for-profit-nursing-homes/> said
> the operators were opting to sell their buildings into a hot real estate
> market rather than pay for costly upgrades required by the provincial
> government. The report said 20 for-profit homes across the province won’t
> be renewing their operating licences when they expire in 2025 – including
> six in Toronto that together provide nearly one in 10 of the city’s LTC
> beds.
>
> Mr. Calandra says his government foresaw this development and worked it
> into its program to expand LTC availability. Based on his blasé response,
> the Ford government needs to show a lot more urgency on this matter.
>
> Under its plan – which on paper might appear ambitious – there’s a chance
> that in five years Ontario will have less long-term care capacity compared
> with need than it does now. That’s the latest analysis by the Financial
> Accountability Office of Ontario, released last month
> <https://www.fao-on.org/en/Blog/Publications/health-2023#fig12>.
>
> The FAO estimates that the number of LTC beds in Ontario will increase
> from 78,200 in 2019 to 105,000 by the end of 2027-28, a jump of 34 per cent.
>
> But it also estimates that the number of Ontarians aged 75 and up – who
> occupy more than 80 per cent of long-term care beds – will increase by 37
> per cent over the same period, leaving fewer beds per person over 75 in
> 2027-28 than there were at the start of the pandemic three years ago.
>
> That would be disastrous. Lest we forget, a chronic failure to build
> enough LTC beds in modern facilities, and to staff them properly, was a
> contributing factor in the COVID-19 deaths of thousands of LTC residents in
> Canada’s two most populous provinces, Ontario and Quebec, and to a lesser
> degree in other provinces.
>
> In what has to be the most glaring example of that failure, the FAO says
> Ontario added a grand total of 87 LTC beds between 2012 and 2019 – a period
> during which the population of Ontarians aged 75 and up grew by 24 per cent.
>
> Eighteen months into the pandemic, before vaccinations in LTC homes began
> in earnest, 80 per cent of the Canadians killed by COVID-19 were seniors
> living in long-term care homes and retirement homes. Understaffed,
> maxed-out facilities where people were supposed to live out their lives in
> comfort and safety instead became death traps.
>
> Among the reasons for that were underpaid staff who worked in multiple
> homes and carried the disease from job to job, older homes with ward-like
> rooms containing four or more beds, a failure to operate under the
> assumption that asymptomatic people could transmit the virus, and resulting
> delays in testing and masking workers.
>
> The outrage caused by the slaughter prompted calls for dramatic but
> unworkable reforms. They included the nationalization of all LTC homes, the
> creation of federal standards for LTC homes even though it’s a provincial
> jurisdiction, and bringing long-term care under the umbrella of medicare.
>
> Those were but sidebars to the real issue: the lack of LTC beds of any
> kind – for-profit, non-profit or government-run – in a country that is
> aging rapidly, and also growing rapidly.
>
> The Ford government says it will create 30,000 new LTC beds and upgrade
> another 30,000 by 2028. It has also begun to raise the wages for LTC
> workers. Ottawa is chipping in billions
> <https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2023/03/government-of-canadasupports-seniors-in-long-term-care-by-helping-to-ensure-they-access-safe-and-quality-care.html> to
> help the provinces raise wages, build new homes and improve existing ones.
>
> But if Ontario is anything to go by, it won’t make enough of a difference.
> The FAO says more than 39,000 Ontarians were on the wait-list for a
> long-term care placement last November. Based on the FAO’s analysis, that
> number could well be higher in five years.
>
> And that means there will be even more seniors occupying much-needed
> acute-care beds in hospitals while they wait months and months for a
> placement – the other serious consequence of inadequate long-term care in
> Ontario and elsewhere.
>
> It is disturbing to see that even after the pandemic’s lessons about the
> dangers of not meeting the demand for long-term care, the Ford government
> and Ottawa don’t appear to have grasped what the essential problem is, and
> just how big it is.
>
> Canada needs many more LTC beds, at the cost of many more billions. What
> will it take to make our elected leaders understand that?
>
>
>
> I’m not a believer that we necessarily need more LTC – I think there needs
> to be huge investment into home care.  Did you know that home care staff
> are compensated even more unjustly than LTC staff.  They often do not have
> guaranteed hours and they often do not have benefits or pensions either.
> We need to pay LTC & community health care on a par with hospitals.  We
> need to invest in optimal ageing supports and services, in the community,
> to keep our olders as healthy as they can be.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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