{"id":34582,"date":"2020-07-22T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=34582"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:28:25","slug":"fords-refusal-to-address-ltc-staff-shortages-is-abandoning-seniors-before-possible-second-wave-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/fords-refusal-to-address-ltc-staff-shortages-is-abandoning-seniors-before-possible-second-wave-ndp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford&#8217;s refusal to address LTC staff shortages is abandoning seniors before possible second wave: NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ontario NDP&#8217;s Long-term Care critic, Teresa Armstrong, released the following statement in response to an Ontario Health Coalition\u00a0 (OHC) survey that shows 95 per cent of long-term care staff report seniors&#8217; basic needs continue to go unmet due to staffing shortages:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands of families are grieving the loss of a loved one in long-term care, and countless more are wracked with worry over a relative who continues to live in long-term care during COVID-19. The OHC&#8217;s finding that these facilities are more short-staff than ever is, sadly, not surprising. The military and hospital teams have left long-term care, and staffing levels in many homes are lower than ever. Yet, as Ontario braces for a potential second wave of COVID-19, Doug Ford is parading on a vanity campaign tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ford needs to mandate that enough staff be on each shift to offer at least four hours of hands-on care to each residents each day, and make PSW jobs full-time and better paid. Ford&#8217;s refusal to address critical staff shortages and protect our seniors is terrifying to the many Ontarians whose loved ones live in long-term care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario NDP&#8217;s Long-term Care critic, Teresa Armstrong, released the following statement in response to an Ontario Health Coalition\u00a0 (OHC) survey that shows 95 per cent of long-term care staff report seniors&#8217; basic needs continue to go unmet due to staffing shortages: &nbsp; &#8220;Thousands of families are grieving the loss of a loved one in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 18:04:46","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\/34582","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34583,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34582\/revisions\/34583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}