Melissa Wood, of UNIFOR, discusses issues of a report released by the Ontario Health Coalition in Sudbury, Ont. on Monday January 21, 2019. John Lappa\/Sudbury Star\/Postmedia Network<\/em><\/p>\nWith Queen\u2019s Park doling out more beds to private nursing homes and a provincial election looming, the local chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition is gearing up for a big fight to preserve and enhance care for the elderly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to improve and protect public health care and not go into another year with staffing crises,\u201d said Melissa Wood, co-chair of the Sudbury Health Coalition, at an emergency summit held via Zoom on Wednesday evening. \u201cThe (Doug) Ford government is midway in allocating 18,000 long-term care beds to for-profit companies in 30-year contracts unless we stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Speaker after speaker noted how the pandemic exposed huge gaps and disparities in the long-term care system, with privately run homes being far more likely to skimp on protective gear and leave residents in the lurch.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe represent workers in not-for-profit, municipal and for-profit homes,\u201d said Katha Fortier, an official with Unifor and nurse by profession. \u201cAnd everybody simply knows that when you work for a for-profit operator, almost 99 times out of 100, they put profit first.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The public system, meanwhile, \u201chas been starved for decades,\u201d she said, and the long-term sector as a whole is fraught with staffing shortages and rapid turnover.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHealth-care workers are traumatized,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have worked through what is essentially a humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Few private operations are offering full-time work \u201cand when we go to the bargaining table, these employers are still offering wage increases that are well below inflation,\u201d said Fortier. \u201cFor-profit care in long-term care is nothing but an abject failure and we have to make sure that we are voting on this, on stopping privatization.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ultimately it is the residents who suffer, noted Natalie Mehra, head of the Ontario Health Coalition.<\/p>\n
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She used the example of woman named Margaret who had been a foster parent to many in her younger years but \u201csuffered alone and without care\u201d at a short-staffed nursing home.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHer life was valuable; she was an extraordinary human being,\u201d she said. \u201cShe was loved by her family and her community and by all the children she cared for, and as a society we should have seen her life as precious. Instead Margaret died in August in a hospital after months of decline and inadequate care in her long-term care home.\u201d<\/p>\n
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While many seniors have succumbed to COVID-19 over the past couple of years, that wasn\u2019t actually what caused Margaret\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
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\u201cShe was isolated in her long-term care home and didn\u2019t receive the foot care for which her family had paid extra, so she developed painful sores and infected blisters,\u201d said Mehra. \u201cShe didn\u2019t receive her pain medication and died ultimately of kidney failure and a urinary tract infection that was left untreated. Margaret didn\u2019t die of COVID; she died from neglect.\u201d<\/p>\n
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COVID, however, has certainly has taken its toll, as well.<\/p>\n
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Mehra said more than 4,500 residents of long-term care homes have now died from the virus, along with 13 staff members, in two years alone.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t capture all of it,\u201d she said. \u201cAmong residents, more than 25,000 have been infected.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s a third of the approximately 75,000 people who currently reside in Ontario long-term care facilities. On top of that, at least 12,000 staff have contracted COVID.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is not normal,\u201d said Mehra. \u201cIt didn\u2019t happen everywhere in the world. In fact, we have the worst rates of infection and death in our long-term care homes of anywhere in the developed world.\u201d<\/p>\n
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COVID-related mortalities have been far higher among the private facilities, the OHC president pointed out.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat we saw in Ontario\u2019s long-term care homes was the for-profit homes had five times the death rate of the publicly owned homes,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a systemic issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mehra said there must be more accountability for homes that fail to protect residents and a bigger investment in health care overall.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOntario now has the fewest hospital beds per person of any province in Canada,\u201d she said. \u201cWe actually have the fewest beds left per person of any peer nation on earth. The only two OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) countries who have fewer hospital beds left than we do are Mexico and Chile.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, said Queen\u2019s Park is doing more to help businesses with hydro costs than it is for its most vulnerable and fragile people.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOntario is going to be spending an additional $231 million next year on long-term care, and $5 billion over four years,\u201d he said. \u201cBut as an article in the Globe pointed out, we are going going to be spending $24 billion over four years in subsidizing hydro rates, much of which is going to go to business.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That discrepancy \u201cputs into context our priorities as a society,\u201d said Hurley. \u201cYou would think we would be so ashamed, coming off our failure to defend our residents of long-term care, that improving conditions for them would be a huge priority for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Hurley said the average mortality rate for private long-term care homes in the pandemic\u2019s first wave was 5.2 per cent, compared to 2.8 per cent for not-for-profits and 1.4 per cent for municipally run homes.<\/p>\n
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The latter have the highest staffing levels, he noted, followed by the not-for-profits.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s been well documented for years that there\u2019s a problem with the quality of care, particularly in for-profit care,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is simply natural for profit-taking to intensify, but the higher rates of return for shareholders can be counted in the bodies and suffering of the people who are in the clutches of these operators.\u201d<\/p>\n
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With a provincial election just a couple of months away, Hurley said the time is now to protest and reverse the move towards more privatization.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are so gifted because in Ontario, unlike so many other provinces, we have such a vibrant health coalition and a great network,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we unite all of the allies, we are incredibly powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In the past, public pressure has thwarted the privatization of ambulance services, he noted, as well as the privatization of cancer care.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe have a history of activism and a wonderful argument here, in terms of why health care should be delivered on a not-for-profit basis,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just need to get energized.\u201d<\/p>\n
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As part of its campaign to pressure politicians and motivate voters, the coalition will be distributing lawn signs in Sudbury in coming weeks, along with signs to put in windows and stickers for cars, all emphasizing the need to keep health care public.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNo more seniors suffering,\u201d reads one of the messages. \u201cCare can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The group also discussed buying space on a billboard or several billboards in the Sudbury area to further promote its message.<\/p>\n
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An event is also in the works for Tom Davies Square on May 1, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees will be holding a rally in early May.<\/p>\n
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