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.