To Cut Costs, Long-Term Care Homes Want To End Mandatory Inspections
The Alex Pierson Show · 640 Toronto / Curiouscast
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Show Notes
Joining Alex for ON Point is Jane Meadus, Staff Lawyer and Institutional Advocate at Advocacy Centre for the Elderly. It’s obvious that the Ford government needs to cut costs and their focus is on health care. Groups that represent the province’s long-term care homes have been asking to end annual inspections altogether. Considering there are already issues of elder abuse and neglect, ending annual inspections wouldn’t be cutting costs, it would be cutting the last shred of oversight we have left in place.
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