Teresa Armstrong, Official Opposition critic for Home Care and Long Term Care, is renewing the Ontario NDP\u2019s call to establish a standard of hands-on care in long-term care facilities of at least four hours per day, on average.<\/p>\n
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Monday in question period, Armstrong urged the Ford Conservatives to pass without delay her private member\u2019s bill, the Time to Care Act<\/em>, which would do just that. Doug Ford\u2019s Health Minister refused to commit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cNo one should have to worry that the needs of their parent or grandparent will be overlooked because long-term care staff is overstretched,\u201d said Armstrong. \u201cDemand for long-term care is only going to grow as Baby Boomers enter their golden years, and we need to make sure adequate support is available for them in long-term care.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe know front-line workers are already run off their feet. Parents and grandparents need more than just a bed \u2014 they need support from caring staff to protect their health, dignity and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It has been more than a decade since a report by Shirley Sharkey identified the need for an average of at least four hours of hands-on care per day. And it has now been more than six months since Armstrong\u2019s bill passed first reading \u2014 yet there has been virtually no progress in getting long-term care residents the hands-on support they need every day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOntarians with parents and grandparents who live in long-term care facilities deserve to have peace of mind that their loved ones are safe and receiving dignified care,\u201d said Armstrong. \u201cAndrea Horwath and the NDP will keep fighting until a four-hour standard of hands-on care is in place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teresa Armstrong, Official Opposition critic for Home Care and Long Term Care, is renewing the Ontario NDP\u2019s call to establish a standard of hands-on care in long-term care facilities of at least four hours per day, on average. Monday in question period, Armstrong urged the Ford Conservatives to pass without delay her private member\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 11:15:47","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\/19531","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19532,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19531\/revisions\/19532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}