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The Ontario Health Coalition, including the Durham Health Coalition (DHC), will be holding an emergency meeting March 29 to fight the provincial government’s plans to privatize more long-term-care beds.<\/p>\n
Pam Parks, a member of the DHC and of the executive of CUPE Local 6364, which covers workers at Lakeridge Health, said the province is planning to privatize 18,000 long-term-care beds to for-profit companies and give them 30-year operating contracts.<\/p>\n
During a Zoom meeting on Monday, Feb. 28, Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, said Ontario leads the OECD in the number of long-term-care residents who died and three-quarters of those deaths happened in for-profit long-term-care facilities.<\/p>\n
Orchard Villa, a for-profit long-term-care home in Pickering, had 71 deaths during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe average death rates at for-profit facilities was 5.7 per cent and, of course, some of the chains and some of the institutions that Orchard Villa would be an example, was much, much higher than that. That compared to the 2.8 per cent for the not-for-profits and 1.4 per cent for the municipal homes for the aged. A stunning difference and, of course, it\u2019s largely explained by the fact that the not-for-profits and the municipal homes for the aged have higher staffing levels of about 25 per cent higher,\u201d Hurley said.<\/p>\n
He said private hospitals or independent facilities would be competing for staff members, including doctors and nurses, with the publicly-funded hospitals, Hurley noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are only so many workers. So, how do you staff up in the private sector? You recruit them from the public sector. How do you do that? You pay more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here today on behalf of the Ontario Health Coalition; if there\u2019s one lesson that should be drawn from the terrible suffering of the residents who died of heartbreak, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect in these long-term-care facilities and the suffering of their families, if there\u2019s one thing should be brought from that, we cannot afford the confusion that comes when profit and care get combined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cathy Parkes\u2019 father died at Orchard Villa on April 15, 2020 in the first wave of COVID.<\/p>\n
She noted Orchard Villa, one of the homes where the military was called in to help during the early days of the pandemic, has applied to the province for a 30-year operating licence and 87 more beds.<\/p>\n
\u201cYet, they have not been held to accountability in what happened in that home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Parkes said the government seems to be hoping enough time will pass and the public will forget.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll never forget my father and I\u2019ll never forget the people he lived with. I still see their faces. They all had families. They all had people who loved them. They didn\u2019t deserve to die that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charlene Van Dyk has been a front-line worker in Durham for almost 23 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a front-row seat to the staffing shortages and high workloads that the provincial and federal underfunding of health care services has caused. I have also experienced what the underfunding in long-term care looks like and the impact of not enough staff,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She noted the health-care system is \u201cunder attack every day\u201d and the public needs to fight for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to demand that the public health-care options be expanded, not private ones,\u201d Van Dyk said.<\/p>\n
Lance Livingstone, co-chair of the Durham Health Coalition, said his mother was turned away from a for-profit home because of the amount of care she would have needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet rid of the profit homes. There should not be anybody making a profit off of our seniors for what they\u2019ve given to this province and this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
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