There is confusion about what @fordnation's #LTC minister @RodPhillips01 announced re. inspections.

To be clear what he announced was "new" "proactive" inspections. He did not commit to reinstating the in-depth annual inspections of all LTC homes (called RQI inspections) 1/3
Strip away the glowing adjectives & what we have is no commitment to ensure there is an annual surprise RQI on every LTC home.

(This is a longstanding priority from all the public interest groups that care about the interests of residents.)

The reason we are raising this? 2/3
The 4profit #LTC industry has long lobbied against annual surprise inspections of all homes. It's a key point of contention. We (collectively) win them for a few years, the industry beats them back. We win again, they get stopped, like the Ford gov't did when they took office.
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As in what he announced were new proactive...

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28 Oct
Ford Gov'ts New LTC Act
Quick Initial Analysis
Oct. 28, 2021 at 3 p.m.

@fordnation & @RodPhillips01 have gone to extreme lengths to brand this as a new LTC Act. It is not a new Act at all! But there are some changes.
#onpoli

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For full summary:
ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/rele…
Bottom line? There are a few amendments to the existing Act. Many of them fluff. A few of them (particularly those favouring expansion of for-profit ownership) are terrible. The most-teased promise of new enforcement mostly currently exists....
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... (cont'd) & @fordnation has sat on those powers already for years without holding a single operator accountable (in fact quite the opposite).

Quick details/summary:

For-Profit Privatization: @fordnation dropped the requirement to promote non-profit delivery of #LTC
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5 Sep
Now that @fordnation has prorogued the Ontario Legislature, let's review their record of health legislation to date:

▪️a bill that shields for-profit #LTC chain corporations from liability for their negligence in the pandemic
... 1/4
#onpoli
▪️a bill to dismantle all public governance of home care, hand it over to the provider co's (the majority of which are for-profit) & privatize all remaining public home care in Ontario.

(This was @fordnation & @ChrisElliottMPP's priority as the 2nd wave was coming) 2/4
▪️a bill to dismantle the public governance of health care in every region of Ontario & hand it over to provider companies (for- & non- profit) to run w/out public governance. The bill also gives extraordinary powers to the Minister & government to privatize & restructure.
3/4
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16 Jun
We're trying to learn which #LTC homes in Ontario do not have air-conditioning/only have partial air-conditioning (common areas).

Pls help. If we ask @fordnation, if we get a response at all, it will take months.

We want to help your loved one NOW! Fill in the survey here >>
1) My loved one in #LTC has:
a) No air-conditioning at all (none in bedroom nor common areas)
b) No air-conditioning in the room but some in common areas
c) All is good – we have full air conditioning.
d) Other -- pls give details (point form is great)
cont'd...>>
continued from above...

Que. 2) Have things improved regarding air conditioning since last summer or is the situation in your loved one's LTC home the same?

Pls email the Ontario Health Coalition ohc@sympatico.ca with the answers, name & town of the home by end of June 23. >>
Read 4 tweets
31 Jan
It seems like a big PR initiative to counter 100s of Drs/experts advocating an end to for-profit #LTC rolled out this wknd.(@cbc @TorontoStar)
They didn't report the facts about our collective efforts to regulate & hold accountable for-profit LTC.
Here are some (thread)>
#onpoli
For those who've joined lately there has been a pitched struggle to regulate #LTC for decades. One primary eg. surprise inspections. The for-profit industry lobbies against them (with repeated success) every time we win them. Here is the history: globenewswire.com/news-release/2…
The #LTC homes industry has also pushed for the removal of regulations that require homes to have at least one Registered Nurse 24/7, advocated to hire untrained aides & other workers instead of being required to hire trained PSWs, pushed for less annual training requirements & >
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24 Dec 20
The expansion of the Red Cross in Ontario's #LTC homes in crisis is welcome. BUT, heed the words of of Stéphane Parisien CAO of the region, responsible for Prescott Russell Residence,
“….it wasn't the panacea needed. "The Red Cross is not the cavalry...
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"There are quite a
number of limitations to what the Red Cross can do," he said. "They can help us with the
infectious protocols, but they don't provide the human resources to help us feed or
change residents." This is why we are saying if local hospitals cannot 2/7...
...provide the staff needed to help with daily hands-on care-- and we are worried that a number of arrangements with our heroic hospitals (props, truly) include only sporadic and inadequate staffing-- then we need another plan.

3/7...
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