LTC report recommendations draw thumbs up; now it s time for Ontario to act, advocates say “It’s all there in the report, what needs to be done, but it’s going to take commitment and investment.
Author of the article: Bruce Deachman
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Grace Welch, advocacy committee chair of the Champlain Region Family Council Network, says the recommendations of Ontario s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission will go a long way to fixing the province s long-term care system, but the government needs to act. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia
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The recommendations released Friday by Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission are getting top marks from those who have been advocating for wholesale reform of the sector. What those people want to see now, though, is the implementation by the province of those proposals.
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The Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre has the opportunity to further its vision of being a Centre of Excellence in First Nations and northern health care.
The SLMHC has been recognized as a pre-designate Best Practice Spotlight Organization through the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.
For the next three years, SLMHC will participate in a robust work plan to reach designation and provide quality, evidence-based care.
Director of Patient Experience and program lead Sue Anderson says patients and families can expect to see improved engagement by implementing best practice guidelines into their policies.
Whenever the COVID-19 pandemic ends and the final wave crashes on shore, it will carry with it a reckoning for the people who bore the heaviest burden of care in this pandemic, Canada’s 440,000 nurses
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The pandemic's third wave has brought Ontario to the brink of catastrophe. The best options for controlling the situation are well understood, so why won't the provincial government implement them?