{"id":16426,"date":"2021-03-04T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=16426"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:42:14","slug":"ohc-demanding-ontario-do-more-to-fix-the-ltc-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ohc-demanding-ontario-do-more-to-fix-the-ltc-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"OHC Demanding Ontario Do More To Fix The LTC Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(March 3, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>By: CKXSFM.com Staff, CKXSFM.com<\/p>\n<p>Local health advocates are once again calling on the province to do more to protect residents in long term care.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Health Coalition is holding an online protest today to demand more be done for what local chair Shirley Roebuck calls a province-wide issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to bring the staffing crisis and COVID crisis in long term care home to our community,\u201d Roebuck says. \u201cTo let our elected officials who are supposed to be representing us (know) that we need this long term care crisis fixed now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Health Coalition has long been demanding increased hours of care and increased pay for PSWs and other long term care staff.<\/p>\n<p>The province recently announced free tuition for anyone who wants to train as a PSW, but Roebuck says that\u2019s still not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has just announced training, more PSWs, that\u2019s not going to do much good unless they mandate better working conditions and better pay in long term care. But I\u2019m going to fight until the government fixes this problem, because it\u2019s them that created it and it\u2019s them that can fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s virtual protest is being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">streamed live on Facebook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from 11am-1pm, and will include long term care families and staff from across southwestern Ontario to help keep up the pressure on the government.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ckxsfm.com\/ohc-demanding-ontario-do-more-to-fix-the-ltc-crisis\/\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 3, 2021) By: CKXSFM.com Staff, CKXSFM.com Local health advocates are once again calling on the province to do more to protect residents in long term care. 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