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The Health X Files: How Largely Secret Licensing and Funding Arrangements in Long-Term Care Cost the Public Billions with Little Public Accountability

Writer's picture: Patricia SpindelPatricia Spindel

Editorial January 20, 2025




The public has, for over forty years, been barraged with horror stories in long-term care institutions. But nothing seems to ever change for the better.

COMMENTARY: Is it time to end 'for-profit' long-term care in Ontario? | Globalnews.ca https://images.app.goo.gl/LZPGpZzwh9qoURXT6
COMMENTARY: Is it time to end 'for-profit' long-term care in Ontario? | Globalnews.ca https://images.app.goo.gl/LZPGpZzwh9qoURXT6

Research during the pandemic showed that a handful of chain-operated nursing homes had the highest death rates in Ontario.  Yet when it came time to make funding decisions, the Ontario government inexplicably chose to expand the for-profit institutional sector rather than non-profit assisted living programs that would have offered integrated care to elders in their own homes and communities. The worst operators often received more beds.


The public has a right to ask why.



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