As hundreds of long-term care homes across the country grapple with new outbreaks of COVID-19, highly-anticipated draft national standards for these facilities are being released today.
The pandemic exposed fatal weaknesses in Canada’s long-term care sector. In the first few months of the pandemic, more than 80 per cent of Canada’s known COVID-19 deaths happened in long-term care and retirement homes — the highest such rate among nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
“I’m hoping. My God, I’m hoping that this will be a clear blueprint that really can enable provincial and territorial and federal action to move long-term care
