TORONTO Long-term care in Ontario is losing staff to other industries that due to the pandemic are hiring health-care workers for infection prevention and testing supports, a group representing more than 70 per cent of the province s homes said Tuesday. Donna Duncan, the CEO of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, said the staffing crisis in the province s seniors homes is worsening. Never before would we lose our regulated health professionals and infection prevention and control specialists to companies like Amazon, to airports or film and television studios, Duncan said. As other parts of our economy required infection prevention and control and testing supports, they are drawing from the health-care system and draining from long-term care.
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Long-term care in Ontario is losing staff to other industries that due to the pandemic are hiring health-care workers for infection prevention and testing supports, a group representing more than 70 per cent of the province’s homes said Tuesday.
Donna Duncan, the CEO of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, said the staffing crisis in the province’s seniors homes is worsening.
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