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Article content The spotlight on Ontario’s long-term care sector must not be allowed to dim again, observers said the day after the release of a scathing report outlining the province’s neglect of the facilities in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflections from public health experts and relatives of seniors who died in virus-ravaged facilities poured in after the Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission called for an overhaul of the sector. It laid out its recommendations in its final report, delivered to the government on Friday night. We apologize, but this video ha...

The spotlight on Ontario’s long-term care sector must not be allowed to dim again, observers said the day after the release of a scathing report outlining the…

  The spotlight on Ontario's long-term care sector must not be allowed to dim again, observers said the day after the release of a scathing report outlining the province's neglect of the facilities in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflections from public health experts and relatives of seniors who died in virus-ravaged facilities poured in after the Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission called for an overhaul of the sector. It laid out its recommendations in its final report, delivered to the government on Friday night. Tara Barrows, whose grandmother died of COVID-19 in...

Experts say long term care report shows lessons from pandemic can't be forgotten by Melissa Couto Zuber, THE CANADIAN PRESS Posted May 1, 2021 2:28 pm EDT Last Updated May 1, 2021 at 3:19 pm EDT FILE -- A man looks out the window at the Camilla Care Community centre overlooking crosses marking the deaths of multiple people that occured during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ont., on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Summary Experts called for urgent action in the wake of a devastating assessment of Ontario's long-term care sector The 322-page document called for...

Published Saturday, May 1, 2021 3:18PM EDT Public health experts called for urgent action on Saturday in the wake of a devastating assessment of Ontario's long-term care sector, saying they hope the province learns and retains key lessons from its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their reflections came hours after an independent commission released a scathing report on Ontario's pandemic response in long-term care homes, where the bulk of virus-related deaths took place during the pandemic's earliest months. The blistering, 322-page document called for an overhaul of the s...