Not all beds in “Long Term Care” facilities provide long term care. “Convalescent care” beds are a form of “short-stay” beds in long-term care (LTC) facilities. Convalescent beds receive an extra $70.94 more per day than standard “long term” beds do in LTC facilities. That’s 45.7% more funding than the
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Defending Public Healthcare: Long term care funding increase: workers bear the brunt
Four months into the fiscal year, and we now know that long term care funding per bed is going up 1.47% in Ontario. The area that will get the biggest increase will be “Raw Food”, which will see a 3% increase effective July 1. (The 3% is not counting a
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Hospital can’t turn beds over to retirement home
A Windsor hospital has been officially blocked from setting up hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home. As noted in June, the Hotel Dieu Hospital was trying to create 18 “assess and restore” hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home in Amhertsburg. The hitch for the Ministry of Health
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