Bill 43 explained in plain English
Time to Care Act (Long-Term Care Homes Amendment, Minimum Standard of Daily Care), 2018
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Bill 43 proposes to amend the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, to establish a minimum average of four hours per resident per day for nursing and personal support services in long-term care homes.
This bill proposes to amend the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007. If passed, it would require long-term care homes to provide an average of at least four hours per resident per day in combined nursing and personal support services. The bill also allows for a higher minimum average to be prescribed by regulation. The way these hours are calculated would be set out in regulations, excluding time for vacation, holidays, leaves, sick time, training, or other non-direct care activities. The Act would come into force six months after receiving Royal Assent, and would be known as the Time to Care Act (Long-Term Care Homes Amendment, Minimum Standard of Daily Care), 2018.
- Amends the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007.
- Establishes a minimum average of four hours of nursing and personal support services per resident per day in long-term care homes.
- Specifies that this minimum average can be increased by regulation.
- States that the calculation of these hours will be prescribed by regulation and will exclude time not spent in direct resident care.
- Repeals and replaces subsection 6 (2) of the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, to link care plans to resident assessments and the minimum care standard.
- Adds provisions to section 8 of the Act regarding the minimum standard of daily care and how it is calculated.
- Amends subsection 38 (2) of the Act to allow for prescribing a higher minimum average of care hours.
- Sets the commencement date for the Act to six months after Royal Assent.
- Residents of long-term care homes.
- Licensees of long-term care homes.
- Operators of long-term care homes.
- Staff providing nursing and personal support services in long-term care homes.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council (through regulation-making power).
- Licensees must ensure an average of at least four hours of nursing and personal support services per resident per day.
- The calculation of these hours will exclude time not directly related to resident care.
- Care plans must be based on resident assessments and needs, and comply with the minimum care standard.
- This Act comes into force six months after the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The exact method for calculating the average number of hours and specific exclusions will be determined by regulations.
- The bill allows for a higher minimum average of care hours to be prescribed by regulation, but does not specify what that amount might be.
This bill amends the specified Act to introduce a minimum standard for daily care in long-term care homes.
Source: Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007
This subsection is removed and replaced to ensure that resident care plans are based on assessments and resident needs, and also take into account the licensee's duty to meet the minimum daily care standard.
Source: Section 1
This section is updated to include new subsections that establish the minimum average daily hours of nursing and personal support services per resident and define how these hours are calculated.
Source: Section 2
This subsection is amended to allow for regulations to prescribe a higher minimum average number of combined nursing and personal support services hours for the purposes of the new minimum daily care standard.
Source: Section 3
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