{"id":9627,"date":"2018-01-19T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2018-01-19T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:07:24","slug":"reunification-wait-list-should-be-part-of-broad-inquiry-into-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/reunification-wait-list-should-be-part-of-broad-inquiry-into-long-term-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunification wait-list should be part of broad inquiry into long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says that the long wait-list for couples waiting to be reunited in Ontario\u2019s long-term care system should be part of a broad public inquiry into the problems in Ontario\u2019s long-term care system \u2013 a public inquiry Horwath has vowed to launch.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Horwath sat down with Sudbury resident Linda Adler, along with MPP France G\u00e9linas and NDP candidate for the riding of Sudbury Jamie West, to hear about Adler\u2019s elderly in-laws. Hildegard and Gottfried Adler have been separated for five months since Gottfried entered long-term care last summer, and Hildegard \u2013 who also needs to be admitted to long-term care \u2013 became stuck on a waiting list.\u00a0 The couple has been married for 67 years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo imagine these two missing each other, day in and day out, is just heartbreaking,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cThe reason Hildegard and Gottfried aren\u2019t together right now is because Ontario\u2019s long-term care system isn\u2019t working the way it should. There are over 32,000 people on the wait list, and no sign of relief in sight for those folks, mostly seniors, and their families.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKathleen Wynne and her Liberal government are letting families down in Sudbury and across the province. For Hildegard and Gottfried, for the people in long-term care and for the many Ontarians who will need long-term care in the coming years, we can do so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Of the 32,000 people on the long-term care list, 1,133 are waiting in the Sudbury-Manitoulin area. That\u2019s compared to just 1,631 long-term care spaces in the region.<\/p>\n

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Since June, Horwath has been calling for a full public inquiry into the state of seniors long-term care, a find-and-fix mission which she said can be undertaken as a second phase of the public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Elizabeth Wettlaufer\u2019s murders.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to look at the Wettlaufer murders, absolutely \u2013 those families deserve answers,\u201d said NDP candidate Jamie West. \u201cBut we need a second phase of the inquiry to address all the other issues and risks in long-term care. We should be looking at things like staffing levels and bed shortages, lack of attention to patients and residents, unsound hygiene practices and even violence in care homes.\u00a0The system is so strained, it\u2019s letting people down at every stage \u2013 and if we stop sweeping problems under the rug, we can start making changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cGottfried gets to see Hildegard once a week for about an hour,\u201d said MPP G\u00e9linas. \u201cThat\u2019s only possible because their family lives nearby and is able to take Gottfried to see his wife. That\u2019s not the kind of compassionate care I want for families in our community. Hildegard is now number 3 on the wait list. We want the Minister of Health to keep his word, make couple reunification a priority and assure the family that Hildegard will not be bumped down the wait list anymore. That\u2019s what this couple needs \u2013 what Ontarians need is a full find-and-fix public inquiry. It\u2019s the right thing to do because our parents and grandparents deserve so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan 19, 2018 @ 13:03 Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says that the long wait-list for couples waiting to be reunited in Ontario\u2019s long-term care system should be part of a broad public inquiry into the problems in Ontario\u2019s long-term care system \u2013 a public inquiry Horwath has vowed to launch.   On Friday, Horwath …<\/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":[705,1172],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-long-term-care-inquiry","tag-wettlaufer-inquiry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 08:09:28","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\/9627","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=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}