Source avec lien : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, .
La crise COVID-19 offre une opportunité de créer une nouvelle et meilleure normalité dans les établissements de soins de longue durée canadiens. Les recommandations à court terme du rapport sont les suivantes : rendre tout le personnel permanent et limiter son travail à une seule maison de soins ; augmenter les salaires et les avantages du personnel, en particulier les congés de maladie ; fournir rapidement des tests à tous ceux qui vivent, travaillent ou se rendent à domicile ; garantir l’accès immédiat à des équipements de protection ; et limiter fortement les transferts des hôpitaux.
The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at Canadian long-term residential care facilities. The report’s short-term recommendations include: making all staff permanent and limiting their work to one nursing home; raising staff wages and benefits, especially sick leave; rapidly providing testing for all those living, working or visiting in homes; ensuring access to protective equipment immediately; and severely limiting transfers from hospitals. In the long term, evidence suggests policymakers should more effectively integrate long-term residential care into the the public health care system, through federal legislation similar to the Canada Health Act, in order to develop a universal public long-term care plan that is accessible and adequately funded; stop privatization and promote non-profit ownership; ensure protective equipment is stockpiled for the future; build surge capacity into labour force planning and the physical structure of facilities; and establish and enforce minimum staffing levels and regulations.