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  • Long Term Care: Final Response to Draft Regulations
    Updated
    For those of you who are particularly concerned about long term care homes, please find attached the draft OHC response to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care draft regulations under the new Long Term Care Homes Act. The draft regulations will replace the current regulations under the Acts governing for-profit, non-profit and municipal long term care homes, and the Facility Program Manual. Please feel free to copy, distribute, or use the attached materials for your own submissions. The deadline for submissions or comments to the Ministry regarding the draft regulations is June 5. Click here for our action alert containing information on how to send your input to the government and click below for our detailed response to the government’s proposal.
          OHC FINAL RESPONSE TO DRAFT REGULATIONS           (June 5, 2009)

  • LONG TERM CARE HOMES: HIGH LEVEL BRIEFING AND ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
    This March the Ontario Health Coalition and the Alliance of Seniors/Older Canadians Network hosted a conference on regulating Long Term Care Homes to improve care which reviewed the recent history of LTC in Ontario, critical issues, best and worst practices, and prospects for the future. Below is a presentation on the US nursing home sector by Toby Edelman M.Ed., JD, Senior Policy Attorney, Centre for Medicare Advocacy, Washington D.C., and an overview of the situation in Ontario by OHC Director Natalie Mehra.
          PRESENTATION BY TOBY EDELMAN (PowerPoint)       OVERVIEW BY NATALIE MEHRA (PowerPoint)           (March 31, 2009)

    LONG TERM CARE REPORTS

  • Violence, Insufficient Care, and Downloading of Heavy Care Patients
    An evaluation of increasing need and inadequate standards in Ontario’s nursing homes
          MEDIA RELEASE      EXECUTIVE SUMMARY      FULL REPORT (May 2008)

  • OHC Submission to the Facilitator, Shirley Sharkey
    Review of Staffing and Care Standards for Long-Term Care Homes.
          PDF (January 31, 2008)

  • OHC Submission Regarding Bill 140: An Act Respecting Long-term Care Homes
    Presented to the Standing Committee on Social Policy at Queen's Park.
          PDF (January 16, 2007)

  • Bill 140: Ontario's New Long Term Care Act - Preliminary Summary & Comments
    A clause by clause analysis of the draft of the Long Term Care Act as well as a comparsion of the Bill with recommendations made by the provincial auditor.
          PDF (November 25, 2006)

  • Ownership Matters: Lessons from Ontario's Long Term Care Facilities
    A report prepared for the Hospital Employees' Union of British Columbia by the OHC which examines the effect of the Ontario Tory government's privatization of Long Term Care on the quality of care and patients.
          SUMMARY      FULL REPORT (May 27, 2002)

  • Report from Long Term Care Forums
    In February and March 2001, the Ontario Health Coalition held hearings across Ontario on the government's proposed changes to Long Term and Home Care in Ontario.
          PDF (March 2001)

  • Guide to the Long Term Care Act
          HTML (February/March 2001)

  • Dip and Skip
    A Supplement to the June 2001 Report on Homecare Reform in Ontario.
          PDF (November 2001)

  • Secrets in the House
    Homecare Reform in Ontario, 1997-2000.
          HTML (November 2001)

  • Tipping The Balance: Healthcare Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario
    Report for the OHC by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
          Summary (titled "Public Pain, Private Gain") (PDF)       Full Report (PDF) (Summer 2000)

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    LONG TERM CARE CAMPAIGNS

  • Long Term Care Minimum Standards Campaign
    Join in the Long Term Care Petition Campaign to raise Minimum Care Standards.
          PDF (May 18, 2007)

  • Dignity is a Minimum Standard campaign
    Letter writing campaign to support minimum staffing levels for Ontario Long Term Care facilities.
          HTML (May 18, 2007)

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    LONG TERM CARE BRIEFING NOTES

  • Why Protect Public and Not For Profit Long Term Care Facilities?
          PDF (January 16, 2007)

  • Minimum Care Standards in Long Term Care Facilities
          PDF (January 2007)

  • Bill 140: Comparison of Long Term Care Act to Our Key Issues
    A checklist rating Bill 140 against what is needed in legislation.
          PDF (November 25, 2006)

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    LONG TERM CARE FACT SHEETS

  • Long Term Care Facilities
    Background on nursing homes, municipal and charitable homes .
          HTML      PDF (April 2004)

  • Women as Workers in the Healthcare System
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Privatization of Medicare and Women
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Health Restructuring and Women's Access to Medicare
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Long-term Care and Women
          HTML (February 2003)

  • Long Term Care? Community Care? Home Care? Why Should We Care?
    A brief summary of the issues.
          HTML (May 2002)

  • The Emerging Crisis in Chronic Care
          HTML (May 2000)

  • Patient Classification and Funding in Chronic Care
          HTML (January 2000)

  • Long Term Care Facilities' Fact Sheet
          HTML (May 1999)

  • General Long Term Care Fact Sheet
          HTML (May 1999)

  • Chronic Care Fact Sheet
          HTML (May 1999)

  • Chronic Care Policy Issues
          HTML (January 1999)

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    LONG TERM CARE IN THE MEDIA

  • Ontario's Nursing Home Crisis
    A 6-part series by Paul McKay of the Ottawa Citizen.
          HTML (April 26-May 1, 2003)

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    LONG TERM CARE UPDATES IN THE PULSE

  • Long Term Care Update
    News from around the province.
          HTML (May 2001)

  • Long Term Care? Community Care? Homecare? Why Should I Care About Any of Them?
    By Ethel Meade.
          HTML (January 2001)

  • Long Term Care Update
    News from around the province.
          HTML (August 2000)

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    LONG TERM CARE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT

  • Letter to the Minister of Health
    Concerns over the planned fall introduction of a new Long Term Care Act.
          HTML (August 14, 2001)

  • Letter to the Minister of Health
    Regarding the Long Term Care Act.
          HTML (February 8, 2000)

  • Letter to the Ministry of Health
    New Long Term Care Act being drafted without public consultation.
          HTML (December 29, 1999)

  • Letter to Premier Mike Harris
    Regulation 386/99 under the Long Term Care Act limits access to homecare.
          HTML (August 4, 1999)

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    LONG TERM CARE MEDIA RELEASES

  • Coalition Decries McGuinty's Failure to Fulfill Promise to Improve Care Levels in Nursing Homes
    Dalton McGuinty's government promised a regulated care standard to guarantee adequate levels of care for residents in nursing homes, but has instead announced a review that will delay, if not permanently derail such standards.
          MEDIA RELEASE      BACKGROUNDER (September 9, 2007)

  • Bill 140 Media Advisory
    Long-term Care Hearings Imminent: Coalitions Respond Across Ontario.
          PDF (December 12, 2006)

  • Urgent Issue Brief
    OHC comments on Government announcement regarding long term care.
          PDF (October 3, 2006)

  • Strong First Step
    Health Coalition Reacts to Ontario's Nursing Home Announcement.
          HTML (May 14, 2004)

  • Nursing Homes & Homecare Campaign
    Citing unacceptable care standards groups launch campaign.
          HTML (April 26, 2004)

  • Province's Long Term Care PR announcements are an insult to seniors
    In response to a slew of media announcements this week from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care the Ontario Health Coalition is issuing a policy backgrounder and release on the situation facing seniors who require long term care in Ontario.
          HTML (September 14, 2001)

  • Seniors are Suffering
    Coalition releases new evidence from cross-province hearings.
          HTML (May 29, 2001)

  • Tory support private, for-profit sector increasing cost of health care
    Cost of health care privatization of Ottawa Home Care services costing the public $830,000.
          HTML (January 10, 2000)

  • OHC warns Ontarians to get ready for new Long Term Care legislation
    The Ontario Health Coalition is today alerting the public to a major policy initiative that will effect all Ontarians and their entitlement to Long Term Care. .
          HTML (December 7, 1999)

  • OHC calls for full public consultation and release of crucial Long Term Care document
    The Ontario Health Coalition is today urging the provincial government to immediately confirm or deny persistent rumours that it plans to fast-track new long-term care regulations without full public consultation..
          HTML (March 3, 1999)

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    • Earlier Reports & Media Releases Outside Reports