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Home care in Ontario is in crisis

The executive of the community health care sector has endorsed this statement on a crisis in community health care. Please use it to question candidates who are seeking your vote.

Across Ontario, 43 Community Care Access Centres deliver nursing, home-making and therapy to post-operative patients, frail and elderly people, children who need speech therapy and others.

The Conservatives created a crisis when they ordered the CCACs to get rid of their direct care staff and focus on administration.

The CCACs were forced to tender nursing and therapy work to the lowest bidder.

Private sector providers rushed in to grab profits. Nurses and therapists watched their pay drop and their benefits plummet, while their clients suffered. Many left for better jobs, making a shortage of skilled professionals more acute.

While taxpayers pay more for the services, those who need them get less.

From April 2001 to April 2003, 115,000 fewer patients were helped. The service was cut by six million hours of care and therapy – a 30 per cent drop.

Eliminate the profits and put that money back into the care that people need.

Ontario Public Service Employees Union, 100 Lesmill Rd. Toronto, ON M3B 3P8  (416) 443-8888  www.opseu.org     

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