@Builder,
Builder wrote:I'm wondering where they get the sixteen week figure, but it's something.
given what I hear locally (sort of the centre of the cr@p of what's happening with long-term care in Ontario), they anticipate it taking
at least that long to get things under control. It's totally fucked-up.
The army has been moved into a few of the ltc facilities here and in Quebec to provide organization/management and medical care. General Vance has asked to be given the worst homes to take care of.
Our last three/four Progressive Conservative governments have a lot of answer for as they cut back minimum wage increases and funding to ltc facilities (the most recent cutback was less than a year ago) as well as pulling back on facility
inspections (a former PC premier is a major ltc lobbyist and investor). They created quite a clusterfuck. The current premier's mother died a few months back (perhaps covid) and his mother-in-law is in one of the most impacted ltc facilities.