More upgrades for Long-term care beds
Posted Feb 3, 2010 12:48:52 PM.
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Over two-hundred long-term care facility residents in the Region have better homes coming, and Queen’s Park is paying the bill.
Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Deb Matthews, visited Hilltop Manor in Cambridge today to announce a provincial plan to modernize over 4,100 beds and living spaces province-wide as part of a plan to modernize 35,000 beds over ten years.
Locally, Hilltop Manor will get 89 renewed beds and spaces; and Pinehaven Nursing Home in Waterloo will receive 127.
This is in addition to new beds for long-term care homes announced last May.
Matthews did not have a total dollar value for the project, saying it depends on each home. They will be paid a per diem for each bed for the next twenty years, and the per diem ranges from $13 to $18 dollars.
Matthews says the revised living spaces will take things like privacy and wheelchair access into account, but he remained non-committal on the topic of Cambridge Memorial Hospital’s lingering funding controversies. She had no firm date for any kind of funding announcements or commitments.
