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Health & Healthcare

Long-term care platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Long-term care.

ONDP
  • Repeal Bill 7, which charged hospitals if they did not place discharged patients into long-term care homes

    "We will reverse the unconstitutional Bill 7 that allows hospitals to discharge patients into long-term care homes without their consent." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Create culturally appropriate training and long-term and home care for Francophone and First Nations seniors

    "We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Stop the privatisation of home care and long-term care
  • Match long-term care and home care workers to communities where they have shared culture and language skills

Liberal
  • Repeal Bill 7, which charged hospitals if they did not place discharged patients into long-term care homes

    "Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Set a four-hour-per-day minimum standard of care for long-term care residents

    "Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green
  • Build 48,000 non-profit long-term care spaces by 2029

    "Build 48,000 non-profit long-term care spaces by 2029 to meet growing demand." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Phase out for-profit care
  • Create more Indigenous-led, rural, and remote long-term care homes

    "Create more Indigenous-led, rural and remote long-term care homes in their communities, and allocate a portion of the new beds to these homes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Prioritise and enhance capital support for expanding not-for-profit long-term care

    "Prioritise and enhance capital support for the expansion of not-for-profit long term care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a plan to build small, person-centred homes, like the butterfly model, and transition current institutional settings to the new model

    "Create a plan to build small, person-centred homes, like the butterfly model, and to transition current institutional settings to the new model" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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  • Ensure homes offer culturally appropriate services and care
  • Add healthcare and social services supports into existing non-profit seniors housing buildings

    "Instantly create thousands of additional seniors supportive housing units by adding healthcare and social services supports into existing non-profit seniors housing buildings" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Pay staff fairly, and ensure 4 hours/day of care

    "Pay fairly to retain staff so that we can ensure 4 hours per day of care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Set a minimum of one nurse practitioner for every 120 residents

    "Legislate staffing in long-term care facilities to include a minimum of one nurse practitioner for every 120 residents and a staff composition that includes a minimum of 20% registered nurses and 25% registered practical nurses, and an additional 55% personal support workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Set staffing composition requirements with a minimum of 20% RNs, 25% RPNs, and 55% personal support workers

    "Legislate staffing in long-term care facilities to include a minimum of one nurse practitioner for every 120 residents and a staff composition that includes a minimum of 20% registered nurses and 25% registered practical nurses, and an additional 55% personal support workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase long-term care resident access to allied health, such as dietitians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and social workers

    "Increase long-term care resident access to allied health professionals, such as dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and social workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Mandate continued professional development on geriatric care, culturally-sensitive care practices, and palliative and end-of-life care

    "Mandate continued professional development for staff on geriatric care, culturally sensitive care practices for caring for residents with dementia, and palliative and end-of-life care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Prioritise healthy, quality local food for residents

    "Prioritise healthy, quality local food as an important component of resident wellbeing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Ensure the right of residents to have accommodations made for themselves and their spouse or life partner so they can live together in LTC

    "Ensure the right of residents to have accommodations made for themselves and their spouse or life partner so they can continue to live together in long-term care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Remove rules that force residents into long-term care homes far away from their communities and families to avoid fines
  • Increase random inspections and ensure homes with infractions face the legislated consequences
  • Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within the healthcare system

    "Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within the healthcare system to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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