{"id":11822,"date":"2018-04-12T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:08:41","slug":"horwath-re-introduces-legislation-mandating-minimum-hours-of-care-in-long-term-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/12\/horwath-re-introduces-legislation-mandating-minimum-hours-of-care-in-long-term-care-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Horwath re-introduces legislation mandating minimum hours of care in long-term care facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Apr 12, 2018 @ 08:06<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath re-introduced legislation Wednesday that would ensure long-term care residents receive a minimum of four hours of care daily. This will be the third time in less than two years that Ontario New Democrats have brought the legislation forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 78,000 people in long-term care homes in Ontario and the quality of care they receive is a priority for their families, long-term care staff and the NDP. It should be a priority for anyone who\u00a0wants\u00a0to lead this province,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cPersonal support workers, nurses, and long-term care staff are doing\u00a0their best every single day, but they&#8217;re run off their feet and simply can\u2019t do it all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the dignity, health and even the safety of long-term care residents is often risked. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way. We can fix this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For years Ontario&#8217;s front-line workers have been advocating for the restoration of minimum hours. Each effort by the NDP to pass such a law failed to be passed by the Liberal government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this bill, we can make sure long-term care staff have the support they need,&#8221; said Horwath. &#8220;And that our parents, grandparents and every long-term care resident gets the care they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bill will be debated for the first time when it moves to second reading on April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 12, 2018 @ 08:06 Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath re-introduced legislation Wednesday that would ensure long-term care residents receive a minimum of four hours of care daily. This will be the third time in less than two years that Ontario New Democrats have brought the legislation forward. &nbsp; \u201cThere are 78,000 people in long-term &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[134,1327],"class_list":["post-11822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-andrea-horwath","tag-long-term-care"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 04:19:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11823,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions\/11823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}