As long-term care falters, Ontario should ramp up funding for home care, community services, advocates say
As long-term care falters, Ontario should ramp up funding for home care, community services, advocates say
Jan 28, 2021 - Ontario’s health system would be in less turmoil today if the province had done more to help keep frail seniors and disabled people out of long-term care and hospitals, says the CEO of the Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA).
“Had successive provincial governments heeded long-standing calls to redirect health funding to home and community-care services, long-term care homes and hospitals would be taking less of a beating from the pandemic,” Deborah Simon said in an interview Thursday.
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