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Bill 14, Time to Care Act (Long-Term Care Homes Amendment, Minimum Standard of Daily Care), 2021

Armstrong, Teresa J.

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill amends the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 so

that a long-term care home will have to provide its residents with at least

four hours a day of nursing and personal support services, averaged across the

residents. The minimum hours may be increased by regulation.

Bill 14 2021

Act to amend the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 to establish a minimum standard

of daily care

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Subsection 6 (2) of the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007

is repealed and the following substituted:

Based

on assessment of resident

(2) The

licensee shall ensure that the care set out in the plan of care is based on an

assessment of the resident, the needs and preferences of that resident and

takes into account the licensee’s duty to comply with subsection 8 (5).

Section 8 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsections:

Minimum

standard of daily care

(5) Every

licensee of a long-term care home shall ensure that the average number of

combined hours of nursing services and personal support services offered at the

home each day is at least four hours per resident, or if a higher minimum

average is prescribed, the prescribed amount.

Same,

calculation

(6) For

the purposes of this section, the average number of hours of nursing services

and personal support services is calculated as prescribed by the regulations

and does not include hours paid in respect to vacation, statutory holidays,

leaves of absence, sick time or training time or for other purposes which do

not involve direct patient care.

Subsection 38 (2) of the Act is amended by adding the following clause:

(g.1) prescribing

a higher minimum average number of combined hours of nursing services and

personal support services for the purposes of subsection 8 (5);

Commencement

This Act comes into force six months after the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Time to Care Act

(Long-Term Care Homes Amendment, Minimum Standard of Daily Care), 2021 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

November 24, 2021

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Justice Policy

November 24, 2021

Second Reading

Vote

Carried on division

November 23, 2021

Second Reading

Deferred vote

November 23, 2021

Second Reading

Debated

October 7, 2021

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

October 7, 2021

Committee

Second Reading

November 23, 2021

Ms. Teresa J. Armstrong, Mr. Lorne Coe, Mme France Gélina, Mr. Mike Schreiner, Ms. Sara Singh, Mrs. Jennifer (Jennie) Stevens, Mr. Jamie West

Vote deferred.

November 24, 2021

Carried on division. Referred to the Standing committee on Justice Policy.

Committee

Standing Committee on Justice Policy

Third Reading

Royal Assent

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