The city of London is getting nearly 300 new and upgraded long-term care beds as part of the Ontario government’s $6.4-billion pledge to improve care homes by creating more than 30,000 new long-term care spaces by 2028 and upgrading 28,000 more. According to the Long-Term Care Minister, Paul Calandra, two long-term care homes in London will get 92 new and 196 renovated beds for more residents to be "near their family and friends and in a community that they have helped build,” said the Minister.
A recent survey found 84% of workers at Canadian organizations with 100 or more employees are suffering from career burnout, with 34% reporting high or extreme levels. The study, conducted by a global employee management firm, also found that one in five employees were actively looking for a new job – but experts say quitting is not necessarily the cure for career burnout, as employers are increasingly open to working with employees to lessen work stress in today’s tight labour market.
A new survey suggests that more people in Ontario are accessing mental health support than at any other time during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Mental Health Association poll indicated 24% of respondents have sought help for mental health challenges, compared to 17% last winter and 9% almost two years ago. The poll surveyed 1,001 Ontario adults between Jan. 10 and Jan. 17, 2022.
After “Deltacron” started making headlines and fuelling panic in early January as an alleged hybrid between two COVID-19 variants (Delta and Omicron), it turned out to be a mistake. Upon inspection, multiple researchers said the sequence appears to be a “contamination,” “lab error” or “artifact.” Now, experts advise people to avoid using misleading and panic-inducing terminology.
Health-care experts say there are solutions to Ontario's immense backlog of non-COVID-19 cases, but it would require a "complete rethink" of how the province's health system operates. They also say the backlog, along with the staffing shortage, were both problems before the pandemic, but the "unrelenting chokehold" of COVID-19 on the system stretched its threadbare resources like never before. The call for a better way to address the crisis comes as non-urgent surgeries resumed this week.
New national standards have been released to improve Canada’s long-term care facilities, after a 21 month-long revision process involving over 18,000 Canadians and stakeholders. Dr. Samir Sinha, technical committee chair for the Health Standards Organization (HSO), said he is hopeful this will provide a “clear blueprint” to enable the federal government, provinces, and territories to move long-term care “to where all Canadians are demanding it to go.”
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