2022 Ontario Pre-Budget Submission
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Three Key Investments into Home and Community Care Needed to Safeguard the Future Sustainability of our Health System
To enable people to live well at home and in their community, to protect and optimize hospital and long-term care capacity and to strengthen the front-line workforce, this year the government must invest $677 million into the home and community care sector.
This investment would enable three key results:
1) Stem the mass exodus of staff and ensure there is capacity to deliver home and community care services by providing $470 million to increase the salaries of home and community care frontline staff and exempt the entire community health sector from Bill 124.
2) Prevent hospitalizations and early admissions to long-term care as a result of cuts to community support services and independent living services by investing $57 million in community support services base funding. Without this 5% increase, many organizations will either be in financial deficit position or be forced to cut service levels, create of waitlists, or increases to client fees.
3) Enable the clearing of the surgical and procedural backlog by facilitating the delivery of the additional home care volumes announced in the Fall Economic Statement by injecting an additional $150 million directly into home care service providers. Without this 5% rate increase, providers won’t have the necessary infrastructure and operational sustainability to continue delivering services.
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