Hundreds of million of dollars are desperately needed to stabilize the home-care workforce in Ontario, the association representing organizations providing that care said as it urged the province to speed up delivery of promised funds.
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“We aren’t doing enough to shore up the health-care system outside the hospitals,” said Sue VanderBent, CEO of Home Care Ontario, whose members employ about 28,000 health-care workers.Premier Doug Ford’s government is in the midst of reforming health-care across the province. “What we’re saying is let’s stabilize the foundation, which is home care, before we try to build the house,” she said.
In its pre-budget report to the province, Home Care Ontario said the vacancy rates for nurses in home care stands at 17 per cent and personal support workers sits at 12 per cent.A personal support worker in home care makes, on average, $4.61 less per hour than one working in a hospital, the report said.
The low wages are a deterrent to both recruitment and retention of front-line staff, VanderBent said.
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