Increased home and community care can help ease pressure on hospitals

Province warned hospitals are ‘on the brink,’ Dec. 13

Your recent story on hospital overcrowding states that hospital funding has “taken a back seat” to home and community care, but that’s simply not the case.

Although the government has made important investments in home and community care in recent years, they have been comparatively small. In fact, the majority of not-for-profit home and community-care providers haven’t received increases to their operational funding in years.  
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