The provincial budget released Thursday detailed an $850 million increase in funding to hospitals – a four per cent boost in base funding – plus $200 million to address health-care staffing shortages across the entire system
TORONTO — Ontario is boosting funding for hospitals, pediatric care, mental health and home care as part of its efforts to reform health care in the province."The pandemic, we're through that, now it's the time to pivot to make sure we have investments, long-term sustainable investments, in our health-care system," said Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy.
The province has also designated all of the $4.4 billion contained in the soon-to-be-signed health-care deal with the federal government. The budget said Ontario will spend $72 million this year on those clinics, some of which are private, for-profit centres.Last year saw rolling emergency department closures, sometimes for hours, days or weeks at a time. Hospitals said the closures were largely due to a severe nursing shortage. There are also significant shortages of health-care workers in long-term care and home care, particularly nurses and personal support workers.
The government is also investing a total of $80 million over three years to expand nursing education in universities and colleges, a move it says will add 8,000 additional nurses by 2028. That money will be used for community-led programs and to "make a broad range of addictions services available across Ontario that are easy to access," the budget said.The province is also committing $202 million annually to address homelessness and Indigenous supportive housing.
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