Long Term Care Access and Transparency Act
A straightforward idea: publish the information families need to understand the state of long-term care, and require a public plan to improve timely access.
“You cannot fix what you do not measure.”
Transparency before promises.
Families navigating long-term care should not have to guess how long a loved one may wait, whether capacity is keeping pace with demand, or how many hospital beds are occupied by patients who have already been approved for long-term care but cannot be placed.
The Long Term Care Access and Transparency Act would require health authorities and the minister to report on long-term-care waitlists and would require the minister to develop a plan to improve timely access to long-term care.
The point is not complicated. If government expects the public to judge whether the system is improving, the public needs consistent information about how the system is performing.
What the bill would bring into public view
- Long-term-care waitlists and wait times
- Alternate-level-of-care patients waiting in hospital for a long-term-care placement
- Hospice capacity
- Deaths while waiting for care
- Access to home support
- An annually updated plan to improve long-term-care access and capacity
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