GRAVENHURST, ON – Staff at Muskoka Shores Nursing Home are set to hold a rally and pubic BBQ tomorrow at the Gravenhurst Lion’s Pavilion to increase pressure on the home to improve the quality of care that residents are receiving. “The people we care for are suffering,” says Cindy Seaton, President of CUPE local 2481…
TORONTO, ON (July 19, 2016) – Home care services of more than 1500 infirm and elderly, inner city patients provided by Toronto’s Neighbourhood Group are still in peril of coming to an end despite today’s announcement of additional sector-wide funding by the provincial government. Personal Support Workers from Neighbourhood Group provide home care to low…
GRAVENHURST, ON – Residents at Muskoka Shore Nursing Home are not getting the level of care they need and the Wynne government must take immediate action, said staff from the home who held a rally Monday to draw attention to the urgent situation. “We now have only three personal support workers scheduled for every 60…
NORTH BAY, ON – Repeated studies show that publicly run long-term care homes provide better quality of care for residents than either private not-for-profit or for-profit homes, the Cassellholme Board learned at their meeting today. “Multiple studies show that publicly run homes have fewer hospitalizations, lower death-rates and a lower use of anti-psychotic medications that…
NORTH BAY, ON – Quality of care for North Bay and area’s aging seniors is what’s at stake in the impending decision, by the Cassellholme Board, on how redevelopment of the long-term care home moves ahead, says Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, who’s in town Thursday to meet with the Board. “Decisions about how…
NORTH BAY, ON — Residents in North Bay and east Nipissing firmly support their taxes going toward resident care at Cassellholme. But there is overwhelming opposition to divesting Cassellholme into a privately-run nursing home, according to an area-wide poll released today. Cassellholme is the only public, municipal home for nine east Nipissing municipalities. Behind the…
North Bay, ON — A survey of 814 North Bay and east Nipissing residents, testing attitudes about the role of municipalities in the provision of long-term care will be released on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 11 a.m. at 120 Lakeshore Drive, North Bay. Focused on Cassellholme Home for the Aged, the only public, municipal…
Cassellholme board, mayors and councils should know the difference NORTH BAY, ON — Research evidence strongly supports maintaining public municipal control of Cassellholme, says Professor Susan Braedley who will be a guest speaker at a community forum in North Bay on June 7, 2016. What’s more says, the Carleton University academic and researcher on two…
NORTH BAY, ON – There’s the role of a secretive sub-committee that reports back to municipal councils. A hushed consultant’s report filled with financial costings and projections of millions of dollars to buy out yearly contributions to Cassellholme that the mayors and councillors know the content of, but aren’t sharing with the public. There’s a…
Toronto, ON – Now that the “ill-conceived” registry for personal support workers (PSWs) has been scrapped, the 20,000 PSWs represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario in long-term care, hospitals and community care are asking for the issue of regulation for PSWs to be made a priority. Educational requirements and occupational demands…
