Ontario missed interim target for providing hands-on care to long-term care residents

Next goal is 4 hours per day of direct care by end of March 2025

Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 25, 2024 9:31 AM EST

A health-care worker leaves after finishing her shift for the day at the Eatonville Care Centre in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)

Ontario failed to meet its own legislated target this past year for the average number of hands-on hours of care that long-term care residents receive, a newly updated document shows.

The province says it has since reached its goal for the 2023-24 fiscal year, but that happened outside of the timeframe the Progressive Conservative government set out in a 2021 law.

The government says it continues to work toward its next target of ensuring residents get four hours per day of direct care from nurses and personal support workers by the end of the current fiscal year next March.

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