The Basic Facts on Ontario Long-Term Care
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This content is courtesy of Concerned Friends, an Ontario advocacy organization dedicated to improving long-term care. Visit their website to learn more about their work.
Long-Term Care Homes are residential homes for people with a variety of abilities and challenges: physical handicaps, developmental handicaps, elderly and frail, or people with psychiatric disabilities and dementias. Facilities range in size from 40 to over 400 beds, and can be licensed as for-profit, non-profit or municipally owned. They all receive funding from the government of Ontario, but require residents to pay a portion of the monthly costs.
Long-term care homes are accountable for the quality of care, programs and services provided to residents. Long-term care homes are also responsible for the management of public funds received for providing services to residents and the management of residents’ funds held in trust.
All licensed long-term care homes are directly accountable to the Ministry of Long-term Care. This Ministry is responsible for monitoring, evaluation, and taking action to ensure compliance by all long-term care homes.
Long-term Care Homes act in accordance with:
- Applicable Acts and regulations;
- The service agreement between the facility and the Province of Ontario;
- Ministry of Health policies and directives.
The Legislation that governs Long Term Care Homes in Ontario is known as the Fixing Long Term Care Act 2021.
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