New standards for long-term care homes in Canada

While the new national standards for long-term care homes are voluntary, health experts say they won't do the job unless LTC homes adopt all of them without exceptions.

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[piperlynne]

I know that a long term care home run by the BC government is chronically short staffed and relies on casual employees instead of hiring enough full and part time employees and paying them benefits. I can't even count how many times we have worked short staffed and when you look at Interior Health's website they are not hiring more employees for this care home. They are short staffed not because they can't find workers but because they hire casual employees only and no one can survive on a casual employees wage when you aren't guaranteed any income nor do you get benefits. So if they hired more full time and part term employees and paid benefits there would be no staff shortages.

[aaronbarrett]

WE lost 20K senior citizens, not to the plague but to neglect. Read the CDN armed forces report on it. The homes that neglected seniors were PPP.

[marekrudny]

Old standards were not followed, what makes you think that the new (voluntary!) ones will be?

[セ千尺丂セ]

I'd never let my parents live here.

[yotuba]

We also need better patient staffing ratios. You get that, the "nursing shortage" is GONE.

[davechattoe]

3 Billion dollars and it's a voluntary mandate? Am I missing something here?

[worldwhytf]

Those who have worked in LTC have been screaming for changes for YEARS.... go figure, it took a complete cluster***k to happen before they say "uhhh I guess we better do something.."

Ffs.

[lisesteeves]

You know if long term care or any care home is to get better is to fix the issues of.
1. Staffing - stop making it so hard for people get a nursing education. Why do they need grade 12 math for packing a wound.
2. Change the schedule working 7 days in a row will mentally and physically burn anyone out!!
3. The pay for what you have to deal with isn't attractive to most.
I dont see the government changing anything till they themselves have to experience living the situation

[juztnlast]

Three to four beds in a room? In the US we constantly complain about the terrible care in nursing homes, we call these facilities nursing homes in the US, yet the standard is two beds per room!

[catwilk]

Staff members actually have to bring in depends and snacks. Some even bring in single beds to house. Some of these people that get dropped in their lap.
From their own home single beds that aren't mechanical. And then they get written up for not having mechanical beds. Because the ones they have are broken and they get in trouble for them being broken. But they're not getting any money to fix them or get new beds.
It's just an endless ridiculous cycle

[paolotonolo]

This won't sit well with Mr.Buck-a-Beer here in Ontario, the Job of the conservatives is to Cut cut cut