{"id":13650,"date":"2020-07-10T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2020-07-15T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T18:28:44","slug":"urgent-survey-ontario-health-coalition-long-term-care-staffing-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/urgent-survey-ontario-health-coalition-long-term-care-staffing-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">URGENT SURVEY: <\/FONT> Ontario Health Coalition Long-Term Care Staffing\u00a0Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(July 10, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In order to complete the survey, please download the word document found at the bottom of the page, edit the document on your computer to fill in the survey, and email it to us at ohc@sympatico.ca. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You can also complete the survey by copying and pasting the survey found below into the body of an email, then fill in the survey and make sure the &#8220;To:&#8221;\u00a0 or &#8220;Recipient&#8221; line has the ohc@sympatico.ca email address and hit send.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please help with this if you can by distributing to long-term care staff and asking them if they can fill it in to let us know what is happening in their LTC home. It is urgent and will help to create\u00a0a picture of what is happening across the province.<\/p>\n<p>This survey is for staff in long-term care homes. <u>Any LTC staff person in Ontario can give us their input by filling in the survey<\/u>. We are trying to get a snapshot of the current staffing levels in Ontario&#8217;s long-term care homes. Please share this with any LTC staff you know and ask them to send it in <u>by next week: FRIDAY JULY 17<\/u>. It is a quick survey\u00a0and we will use it for a report to go out to the media letting Ontarians know what is happening with the staffing levels in LTC. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The goal of this\u00a0survey\u00a0is to measure staffing shortages in long-term care currently. The results will be put into a report and released to the media as soon as possible.\u00a0Thank you for helping with this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please note: Your participation is confidential. We will not save or release any identifying information about you.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please fill in the following short\u00a0survey\u00a0and email it back to\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"mailto:ohc@sympatico.ca\"><strong>ohc@sympatico.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong>\u00a0with the subject line ATTN:\u00a0SURVEY\u00a0<u>by FRIDAY JULY 17, 2020<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What region of Ontario is your long-term care home in?\u00a0<\/strong>(please put an x beside the correct region)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Northwestern Ontario (White River west to the Manitoba border)<\/li>\n<li>Northeastern Ontario (Wawa east to the Quebec border)<\/li>\n<li>Central Ontario (South of Sudbury to Barrie and Orillia, including the Bruce Peninsula, Georgian Bay, Lake Huron shore)<\/li>\n<li>Southwestern Ontario (Windsor and Sarnia to Kitchener-Waterloo)<\/li>\n<li>Hamilton-Niagara<\/li>\n<li>GTA<\/li>\n<li>Peterborough, the Kawarthas and Northumberland<\/li>\n<li>Southeastern and Eastern Ontario (from Bellevelle east)<\/li>\n<li>Other? (please name):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Is your long-term care home (put and x beside the correct answer):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For-profit<\/li>\n<li>Municipal\/Regional (public)<\/li>\n<li>Non-profit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 1. Are staffing levels in your long-term care home better, the same or worse than prior to COVID-19?\u00a0<\/strong>(Please put an x beside the correct answer.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better<\/li>\n<li>The Same<\/li>\n<li>Worse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Question 2. Are you working short-staffed?<\/strong>\u00a0(put an x beside the correct answer)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<li><strong>If yes you are working short-staffed, how often?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>If no, please skip to the end and send in your\u00a0survey.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 3. If you are working short-staffed, can you describe for us how short-staffed you are?<\/strong>\u00a0(Eg. how many shift lines are left unfilled? how many staff are you short? any other way of measuring the shortage?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 4.\u00a0<u>If staffing levels are worse than prior to COVID-19<\/u>\u00a0how much worse is it?\u00a0<\/strong>(If staffing levels are the same or better, please skip this question.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 5. What care cannot be done as a result of staffing shortages?\u00a0<\/strong>(eg. bathing, repositioning, time to feed, emotional support, cleaning)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 6.\u00a0 Which staff classifications are you short?<\/strong>\u00a0(Eg. No RN, short PSWs, housekeeping, rehab, RPNs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 7. How many beds are in your long-term care home?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/OHC-LTC-Staffing-Survey-July-2020.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click here for printable version (PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/OHC-LTC-Staffing-Survey-July-2020.docx\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click here for word document version<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 10, 2020) In order to complete the survey, please download the word document found at the bottom of the page, edit the document on your computer to fill in the survey, and email it to us at ohc@sympatico.ca. 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