The province has announced a major boost in funding for all the Long Term Care homes in the Bay of Quinte.
In its plan for fixing long term care the province has announced millions of dollars in funding, including 7.8 million for nine homes in Belleville, Trenton and Picton.
Bay of Quinte MPP Todd Smith says “This funding will allow homes in our community to hire and retain more staff so they can provide more care to residents, every day.”
Details of the government’s plan are below:
This is part of the province’s commitment to ensure long-term care residents receive —on average— four hours of direct care per day by 2024-2025. These funds average— four hours of direct care per day by 2024-2025. These funds will increase care for residents in each of the nine long-term care homes in Bay of Quinte. Allocations for 2022-2023 are as follows:
• Hastings Manor, in Belleville, will receive up to $2,206,512 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• McFarland Home for the Aged, in Picton, will receive up to $732,588 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• Westgate Lodge Nursing Home, in Belleville, will receive up to $645,384 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• Trent Valley Lodge Nursing Home, in Trenton, will receive up to $889,572 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• Versa Care Hallowell House, in Picton, will receive up to $619,224 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• Kentwood Park, in Picton, will receive up to $296,520 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• West Lake Terrace, in Picton, will receive up to $287,808 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• Crown Ridge Place, in Trenton, will receive up to $1,064,016 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
• Belmont Nursing Home, in Belleville, will receive up to $1,116,336 for additional staffing this year to increase the hours of direct care for residents.
“This funding will allow homes in our community to hire and retain more staff so they can provide more care to residents, every day,” said Todd Smith, MPP for Bay of Quinte. “This is part of our government’s plan to hire thousands of new staff over the next four years to ensure those living in long-term care get the high-quality care they need and deserve.”
“We know that more qualified staff means more daily care for residents,” said Paul Calandra, Minister of Long-Term Care. “Hiring more staff is part of our government’s plan to fix long-term care and to improve the quality of care residents receive and the quality of life they experience.”
Seniors entering long-term care today are older and have more complex medical needs than they did just a decade ago. The level of care residents need has increased dramatically, but the amount of care they receive each day has not. In the nine years, between 2009 and 2018, the amount of care each resident received, by all providers, per day increased by only 22 minutes. Our government, over the span of four years, will increase direct hours of care by 1 hour and 21 minutes.
The government is investing $4.9 billion over four years to boost direct resident care to an average of four hours daily by increasing care staff by more than 27,000 people. Hiring thousands of new staff at long-term homes and increasing the amount of care they deliver each year will be made possible by annual funding increases to homes:
• $270 million in 2021-22
• $673 million in 2022-23
• $1.25 billion in 2023-24
• $1.82 billion in 2024-25
QUICK FACTS
• Ontario now has over 24,000 new and 19,000 upgraded beds in the development pipeline, which means more than 80 per cent of 30,000 net new beds are in the planning, construction and opening stages of the development process.
• In 2021-2022, the province invested $200 million to train up to 16,200 additional personal support workers through publicly assisted colleges, private career colleges and district school boards.
• In 2021-2022, the province also invested $35 million to add up to 2,000 additional nursing students at publicly assisted colleges and universities across the province, for the Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 incoming cohorts.
