Bill 14 explained in plain English
Time to Care Act (Long-Term Care Homes Amendment, Minimum Standard of Daily Care), 2021
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Time to Care Act would amend the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 to require long-term care homes to provide an average of at least four hours of nursing and personal support services per resident daily.
This bill, titled the Time to Care Act, proposes amendments to the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007. It aims to establish a minimum standard for daily care in long-term care homes by requiring that an average of at least four hours of combined nursing and personal support services be provided per resident per day. The bill also clarifies how these hours are calculated and allows for higher minimums to be prescribed by regulation. The Act would come into force six months after receiving Royal Assent.
- Establishes a minimum standard of four hours per resident per day for the combined average of nursing and personal support services offered in long-term care homes.
- Amends the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007.
- Specifies that the calculation of daily care hours excludes time paid for vacation, statutory holidays, leaves of absence, sick time, training, or other activities not involving direct resident care.
- Allows for regulations to prescribe a higher minimum average number of care hours.
- Makes consequential amendments to provisions related to prescribing higher minimum care hours.
- Sets a commencement date for the Act to be six months after it receives Royal Assent.
- Residents of long-term care homes.
- Licensees of long-term care homes (operators).
- Providers of nursing services in long-term care homes.
- Providers of personal support services in long-term care homes.
- The Government of Ontario (through its ability to prescribe higher minimums via regulation).
- Licensees have an obligation to ensure that the average number of combined hours of nursing and personal support services offered at the home each day is at least four hours per resident, or a higher amount if prescribed by regulation.
- Licensees must ensure care plans are based on resident assessments, needs, and preferences, and comply with the minimum daily care standard.
- The calculation of care hours must exclude time not directly related to resident care, such as vacation, sick time, or training.
- The Act comes into force six months after the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill text does not specify the exact penalties or consequences for non-compliance with the minimum care standard.
- The bill allows for higher minimum average care hours to be prescribed by regulation, but these specific amounts are not detailed in the bill text.
- The precise method for calculating the average number of care hours and which specific services are included under 'nursing services' and 'personal support services' will be prescribed by regulations, which are not provided in the bill text.
This bill amends the Act to establish a minimum daily care standard and related calculation methods.
Source: Bill 14, Section 1, 2, 3
The existing wording is repealed and replaced to require that the licensee ensures care plans are based on resident assessments, needs, and preferences, and takes into account the duty to comply with the new minimum daily care standard.
Source: Bill 14, Section 1
A new subsection is added to Section 8 to establish the minimum standard of four hours per resident per day for combined nursing and personal support services, and to outline how these hours are calculated.
Source: Bill 14, Section 2
This subsection is amended to include a new clause that allows for the prescription of a higher minimum average number of combined nursing and personal support services.
Source: Bill 14, Section 3
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