‘We’re going to do whatever it takes to fix it’: Ford on long-term care home report

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says there has been a crisis in the province's long-term care home system for decades.

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41 comments

  1. Could it be that hard core Conservative Ford is going to raise taxes on the wealthy? Pass the popcorn.

    1. YES I remember how great the elderly were taken care of when central governments ruled the east. NOTHING like being in a soviet nursing home! Canada is already fucked. We are done for.

    2. Chris Ashcroft he’s going to be investigated by the Canadian Human Rights Commission as the Canadian Military reported him
      This is so serious

    3. @C Mac They reported Doug “the cheating slug”? We can only hope he is properly exposed.

    4. Doug Ford seems to be the only one taking responsibility. Unlike everyone else just pointing fingers.

    1. Correction. How big the piece, is the only difference. Doug the cheating slug needs to be removed from office, as does John Tory.

  2. The Ontario Ministry of Health has been well aware of the situation in long term care homes. Everyone has turned a blind eye and done nothing because the cost to overhaul the entire system would be astronomical. Our governments and health officials have just let the weight fall onto the backs of over loaded, and under paid staff who have basically been told to shut up, and put up with the poor working conditions. Managers tell psws and nurses they should be grateful to have jobs, and if they don’t like their job, to go work at Tim Horton”s.

    1. wholeheartedly agreed…. i work with an individual in a long term care facility and feel for the workers tremendously….

    2. @CanuckleHedz I dated a nurse working in the system and she had four jobs ,none of them with benefits . Private nursing homes operate for a profit not for the care of the residents

    3. And then our elderly suffer ABUSE because of staff frustration! SHUT DOWN these CONCENTRATION CAMPS, forever!

  3. Nursing homes were the problems all along, not ticketing mothers using playgrounds with there kids. Disgusting

  4. While you are at it Ford, look into the abuse of ODSP and social assistance recipients. Gross negligence is what it is.

    1. While you’re at it, look into your participation in and perpetuation of your own negligence, tyranny, abuse, contempt, hypocrisy, and more.

  5. reopen all the province, have a committee to fix this problem at the home and get the province back on the feet, you can do both

  6. The answer is simple don’t trust your government, take care of you parents, they took care of you.

  7. High paid government jobs always the same. There is a huge broken system throughout Ontario. Schools, jails, health, construction gigs and contracts. Lol

  8. A politician speaking the words… we have to make this transparent.

    Or… we have to let the public know what I know.

    Well, this will be illuminating won’t it.

  9. The vast majority of these homes are privately owned and run for a profit. How are you going to fix the problem without buying them out ? Or fining them into bankruptcy and then take them over.

    1. Trust me, even the government run homes are wraught with problems, understaffed, poor pt:staff ratios, very little money to feed pts, no gloves for staff, rationed daily diapers. If we donot treat staff who care for our elderly well, you end up with sick calls, stressed and unhappy workers who have nothing left to give because they areexhausted. It is not easy to wash, dress, feed, give meds, and treatments, let alone do badic assessments forchangesin condition and also have time to look after pts emorional needs when your pt workload is tooheavy to manage. Plus, many pts ate confused, have mobility issues and some have behaviours that can escalate quickly to violence. You cannot manageall the needs on a shoe string budget.

  10. The Ontario Health Ministry should take a big pay cut and give it to the families that have love ones in these homes . Ford there’s no excuses for this .

  11. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” -Winston Churchill

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