REPEAT – MEDIA ADVISORY - Ford Government is Planning to Give Tens of Thousands of New 30-year Long-Term Care Bed Licenses to For-Profits: New Report to be Released Across Ontario with Local & Provincial Information
Ontario Health Coalition
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TORONTO, Nov. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the past year, the Ford government has been moving forward with a plan to award tens of thousands of long-term care beds to for-profit operators, among them those with the most horrific records during the pandemic. Rather than hold for-profit operators accountable for the horrors that we continue to see in long-term care, they are being awarded new 30-year licenses and bed expansions paid by public funds.
The Ontario Health Coalition and local health coalitions are joined by families of loved ones in for-profit long-term care to release a new report, Public Money Private Profit: The Ford Government & the Privatization of the Next Generation of Ontario’s Long-Term Care, across Ontario from Monday November 29 to Friday December 3.
Each regional media conference will feature the regional and local information about the thousands of new and redeveloped long-term care beds being awarded to for-profit companies in their area, family members of residents who have died or are currently living in for-profit long-term care, and the record of those operators in the region.
Media are invited to join the online press conferences by Zoom using the links below.
Speakers include: Natalie Mehra: Ontario Health Coalition Executive Director Doris Wai: whose grandmother passed away at Tendercare LTC Nick Puopolo: mother in long-term care, Sienna Woodbridge Vista and Sienna Family Council Chair David Runions: Fox Ridge Care Community Family Council Chair Reed Zhao: whose grandmother passed away at Tendercare LTC
Speakers include: Jim Stewart: Waterloo Region Health Coalition Chair Susan Watson: Family member, father passed away in a for-profit long-term care facility Gail Roussy: Family member who will speak about her experiences with long-term care Jean Kheul: Retired RN who worked in long-term care Marilyn Hay: Chair Council of Canadians (Kitchener Waterloo Chapter)
Speakers include: Peter Bergmanis: Co-chair of the London Health Coalition Shirley Roebuck: Chair of the Chatham-Kent Health Coalition Bryan J. Smith: Oxford Health Coalition representative Liz Daniels: father was at Banwell Gardens, Windsor Kathy Cottingham: LTC advocacy group, Tilbury Donna Benoit: whose mother is at Tilbury Manor Donnafaye Milton: Revera home family council chair, London
Speakers include: Janina Lebon: Hamilton Health Coalition Co-chair Sue Hotte: Niagara Health Coalition Chair Mervyn Russell: Health Coalition representative in Oakville Sandra Caleta: mother passed away at Hardy Terrace, Brantford Jo-Anne Beggs: mother passed away and father in a Revera home, Oakville Julia Blushak: family member, Extendicare, St. Catharines
Speakers include: Zac Miller: Kawartha Lakes Health Coalition Co-Chair Charlie Courneyea: Durham Health Coalition Co-Chair Cathy Parkes: father passed away, Orchard Villa, Pickering Jan Paul-Tibensky: mother has been in three for-profit LTC homes in the region Maureen McDermott: mother passed away, River Glen Haven, Sutton June Morrison: father passed away, Orchard Villa, Pickering Dorlene Lin: father is in Warkworth Place
Speakers include: Elaine MacDonald: Cornwall Health Coalition representative Matthew Gventer: Kingston Health Coalition Chair Ed Cashman: Ottawa Health Coalition Co-Chair and French-speaking representative Mary Catherine McCarthy: Ottawa Health Coalition Co-Chair and English-speaking representative Betty Yakimenko: mother is in Sienna Madonna Care Community Donna Loney: LTC worker, Ottawa
For more information: Ontario and Toronto, Natalie Mehra executive director (416) 230-6402; Kitchener-Waterloo, Jim Stewart (519) 588-5841; Chatham, Shirley Roebuck (226) 402-2724; London, Peter Bergmanis (519) 860-4403; Oxford County, Bryan J. Smith (226)-228-8309; Hamilton, Janina Lebon (905) 545-5514; Niagara, Sue Hotte (905) 932-1646; Oakville, Mervyn Russell (905) 845-3250; Durham, Charlie Courneyea (416) 557-5935; Kawartha Lakes, Zac Miller (289) 356-7537; Cornwall, Elaine MacDonald (613) 330-3117; Kingston, Matthew Gventer (613) 542-5834; Ottawa, Ed Cashman (343) 999-6886; Blind River, Al Dupuis (613) 808-7710; North Bay, Henri Giroux (705)-471-7746; Sudbury, Dot Klein (705) 566-9072; Thunder Bay, Jules Tupker (807) 577-5946.
