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Position:
The Government of Ontario must ensure that boarding or lodging houses, including rest and retirement homes, are required to register with local boards of health and municipalities. The Government must also ensure that minimum standards for personal care are established for the above mentioned homes that provide such care for their residents. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario must support this resolution.
#A06-5, Boarding or Lodging Homes
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#A06-5, Boarding or Lodging Homes
alPHa urges the Government of Ontario to review the need to regulate boarding or lodging houses, including rest and retirement homes
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May 16 2011
ONTARIO REGULATION 166/11, made under the RETIREMENT HOMES ACT, 2010 has been filed. None of the changes proposed in alPHa's correspondence was incorporated. Please click here to read.
March 28 2011
alPHa has provided written comments on proposed regulations made under the Retirement Homes Act, which include reference to this resolution as well as a renewed call for a requirement for such facilities to register with boards of health. Please click here to read.
May 31 2010
alPHa has received a response from the Minister to the April 20 letter, which outlines some questions that have arisen during the legislative process, but makes no reference to the specific request regardong mandatory notification. Please click here to read.
April 20 2010
alPHa has written a letter to the Minister Respoonsible for Seniors congratulating him for indroducing the act, and requesting that a mandatory notification requirement be added as per the Resolution. Please click here to read.
March 30 2010
Ontario Government has introduced Bill 21, an Act to Regulate Retirement Homes. While it still does not require registration of facilities with the health unit, a separate registrar and regulatory authority are to be established to set and enforce personal care and operational standards. http://www.ontla.on.ca/bills/bills-files/39_Parliament/Session2/b021.pdf
April 2 2008
alPHa has sent a follow up letter to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care reminding him of this Resolution. Please click here to read.
March 7 2008
Durham Region Board of Health has passed a resolution calling on the government to make consumer protection legislation for retirement homes a priority in 2008. Please click here to read.
February 12, 2007
alPHa has sent a letter to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care informing him of the resolution. Jim Bradley, Minister Responsible for Seniors has been copied. Please click here to read the letter.
December 22, 2006
The Ontario Seniors' Secretariat has launched a consultation on regulating rest and retirement homes (i.e. those that are not covered under the proposed Long Term Care Homes Act) 13 consultations will be held at various locations between January 30 and March 2 2007, and written input (fax, mail and an online survey) will be accepted until March 16 2007. Please click here for details of the proposal.
November 24, 2006
alPHa Resolution A06-5 was discussed at the 2006 June Resolutions Session and referred back to alPHa’s Advocacy Committee with instructions to review and resubmit. The Advocacy Committee recommended to the Board of Directors that it be adopted by as an alPHa Resolution, which it was at its November 24 2006 meeting.
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November 3, 2004
The MOHLTC has announced a consultation process leading up to a Spring 2005 introduction of new legislation designed to improve the quality of life of residents of long-term care facilities. A single new act will replace the existing Nursing Homes Act, the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act, and the Charitable Institutions Act.
The stated objectives of this process are to
- Strengthen resident rights and safeguards to combat abuse and neglect
- Develop strong compliance, inspection and enforcement programs in homes
- Improve the system for licensing home operators and approving beds
- Lay a foundation for the on-going capital planning and renewal of the province's approximately 600 long-term care homes.
Please click here to read the Nov. 3 government news release
May 12, 2004
alPHa has sent a letter of congratulations to the Minister on the preceding announcement, along with a copy of the above resolution requesting action on its operative clauses as part of the strategy. Please click here to read the letter.
May 11, 2004
Announcement made by the Government of Ontario pledging comprehensive reforms to long-term care standards. The press release may be read here. A Commitment to Care, the report that led to the announcement of these reforms can be reviewed here
February 9, 2001
Response received from the Publich Health Branch (PHB), indicating that the resolution had been forwarded to the Seniors' Secretariat, which has the government mandate to address this matter.
January 12, 2001
Gord White from the Ontario Residential Care Association, which represents retirement homes, presented information to the alPHa Board of Directors, focusing on standards and on a referral process to the appropriate authorities where complaints are received by the ORCA hotline about non-member facilities. No action items resulted.
October 27, 2000
A letter was received from Geoff Quirt (ADM, Ontario Seniors' Secretariat) reiterating the province's confidence in ORCA's Complaint Response and Information Service for monitoring compliance with standards of care.
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