No more for-profit seniors care!

BC’s Health Minister Adrian Dix just announced plans for almost 500 new long-term care beds.

It’s another positive sign that our government remains committed to fixing our broken seniors' care system, but there’s one big problem.

Right now, the government’s plan is to contract out 85% of these new beds, and there’s no guarantee that the contracts won’t go to for-profit nursing home chains that make millions in profits by cutting corners, neglecting seniors and mistreating workers.

These privately-owned corporate chains have armies of lobbyists that are probably already planning ways to secure those ...

BC’s Health Minister Adrian Dix just announced plans for almost 500 new long-term care beds.

It’s another positive sign that our government remains committed to fixing our broken seniors' care system, but there’s one big problem.

Right now, the government’s plan is to contract out 85% of these new beds, and there’s no guarantee that the contracts won’t go to for-profit nursing home chains that make millions in profits by cutting corners, neglecting seniors and mistreating workers.

These privately-owned corporate chains have armies of lobbyists that are probably already planning ways to secure those contracts. And unless there’s a massive public outcry, they might succeed.

If thousands of us send messages to the Minster of Health and Minister of Finance today, we can drown out the lobbyists, and stop the government from handing over more seniors' care to big corporations.

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Dear Ministers,

I’m pleased that your government plans to add 495 new long-term care beds in our province. We desperately need this additional seniors' care capacity.

However, I was concerned to learn that the new facilities could be contracted out to for-profit operators. I’m writing to strongly urge your government not to give any of these contracts to for-profit corporations.

The problems with for-profit seniors' care are well documented. BC’s Seniors Advocate found that for-profit operators failed to provide 207,000 hours of care to residents, and that seniors in private homes were more likely to be hospitalized. Despite heroic efforts by dedicated and highly skilled health care workers, chronic underfunding and staff shortages left long term care facilities ill-prepared to deal with virus outbreaks – and an Ontario study found that residents were four times as likely to die of COVID-19 in for-profit long term care homes.

The previous government left behind a failed legacy of for-profit seniors' care. Please do not continue with this failed model. Invest in a strong system of non-profit and public seniors' care instead.

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