A new report, compiled through consultation with health stakeholders across Canada, focuses on benchmarks of quality care in long-term care.
The conversation about regulation within long-term care facilities in not a new one, amongst health-care unions, she said in an interview Wednesday.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
It’s key point, highlighted by SEIU-West, recommends that long-term care residents should receive at minimum of 4.1 hours of direct care daily from staff.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“Those minimum hours of care should be mandated, they should be enforced,” Cape said. “From those minimum hours of care, flow all the rest of the improvements more skillful care, quality care.
Saskatchewan does not currently have a set minimum standard of care policy, within long-term care homes. The previous guidelines, detailed in the Housing and Special-care Homes Regulations, were scrapped in 2011 and not formally replaced.“Residents and their families have been seeing this for as long as they’ve been in long-term care, just watching people run, literally run, to provide care,” she said.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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