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(October 25, 2020)<\/p>\n

By: Allan Benner, St. Catharines Standard<\/p>\n

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Many of the recommendations released Friday by the province\u2019s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission sound very familiar, local advocacy groups say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Among recommendations included in an interim report, the commission is calling for a minimum of four hours of daily care for each resident of long-term care homes \u2014 something advocacy groups have been calling for for years, said Carol Dueck from Network 4 Long Term Care Advocacy Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The commission\u2019s recommendations also include increased permanent funding to hire additional staff and transition part-time workers to full-time, and to develop better collaboration between long-term care homes, local hospitals and public health units, and to move residents with infection out of long-term care homes to other health-care settings to prevent the spread of the virus and to help them recover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, as COVID-19 outbreaks again increase at long-term care homes in Niagara and across the province, Dueck said the provincial government must take immediate action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said there are \u201cmultitudinous evidence-based reports\u201d calling for the same investments, \u201cand now their own commission is saying it\u2019s been studied to death \u2014 we don\u2019t need to study the study, get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know how they can possibly ignore this. They have the majority, they have the mandate, they know what needs to be done. I don\u2019t know how with a straight face they can ask to get re-elected and not do something about this,\u201d Dueck said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said the Time to Care Act, Bill 13 \u2014 legislation that includes many of the recommendations in the commission\u2019s interim report \u2014 will be up for second reading on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The province,\u201d Dueck added, \u201cjust needs to get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If those recommendations had been in place, she suspects Ontario\u2019s hard-hit long-term care homes \u201cwould have had a fighting chance with COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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St. Catharines MPP Jennie Stevens said the commission\u2019s findings also echo investments the New Democratic Party has repeatedly demanded.<\/p>\n

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As deaths at long-term care homes across the province began to climb in the spring, she said the NDP \u201cwent forward with our charge\u201d demanding increased investment to protect the vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is very frustrating. At the end of the day, we have to make sure our seniors are looked after and especially in the long-term care sector and to ensure they have their dignity,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cIt\u2019s not anything to do with how the PSWs (personal support workers) are working because they\u2019re doing their due diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And despite recent government announcements of temporary wage increases for PSWs to address staff shortages, Stevens said PSWs she has spoken with remain concerned they will again be forgotten about when the pandemic ends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIn the nursing homes, they\u2019re run off their feet. \u2026 You can\u2019t keep putting up temporary solutions for permanent problems,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have to make sure they get a decent wage and they\u2019re paid for their sick days.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stevens said long-term care homes in Niagara will be the subject of an online town hall meeting Monday evening including NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, herself and fellow provincial NDP representatives Wayne Gates from Niagara Falls and Jeff Burch from Niagara Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m pretty excited about it,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The meeting, to be broadcast live at 6 p.m. on the Facebook sites of participating NDP representatives, will focus on the NDP\u2019s plans to overhaul home care and long-term care across the province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stevens said the NDP plan amplifies the voices of long-term care home workers who have shared their concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe listened to the RNs (registered nurses), we listened to the PSWs and we learned from what this pandemic brought upon us. We\u2019re going to move forward with the lessons that we\u2019ve learned.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a media release issued by the NDP in response to the commission\u2019s interim report, Horwath said: \u201cSadly and sickeningly, so much of what the commission has found so far underlying that is not new.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cChronic understaffing leading to resident neglect has been hurting people for years \u2014 and has only gotten worse as for-profit corporations cut more corners to pocket bigger profits over the last two decades,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to keep our health-care workers happy and safe and keep residents in long-term care safe. We also have to let the caregivers, the family members, feel like they have a place within this health-care sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The commission\u2019s recommendations were supported by labour and health care advocacy groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While supporting the recommendations, the United Food and Commercial Workers representing 5,000 long-term care and retirement home employees in Ontario also called for improvements to elder care across the entire health-care sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A statement from the Ontario Health Coalition said the organization has been calling for the implementation of similar measures for months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere can be no excuse for further failure to implement these recommendations immediately,\u201d the group\u2019s executive director Natalie Mehra said in a media release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The commission\u2019s final report is expected to be released in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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