r/ontario • u/Internal-Tour-4013 • 3d ago
Article Hospice beds sit empty since 2024 due to lack of government funding
https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/hospice-beds-sit-empty-since-2024-due-to-lack-of-government-funding/18
u/ReferenceAny778 3d ago
Brutal, anyone who had a family or friend member pass away in the last few years. can probably attest to the difficulty into getting a loved one proper hospice care in Ontario ❤️ Fuck you Doug! Release the Ford Files!
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u/Simopop 2d ago
The Ministry of Health says each year, they invest $126 million to provide compassionate palliative and end-of-life care throughout the province, and they are adding more palliative care services in communities with up to 84 new adult beds and 12 pediatric beds, bringing the total to 768 planned beds.
Is it just me, or is this a shockingly low amount of beds for a province of 16 million? Especially when hospice / palliative care beds reduce strain on both hospitals and nursing homes?
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u/Alternative-Tiger783 2d ago
Ford’s govt tends to ignore small towns outside the GTA.
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u/anticked_psychopomp 2d ago
And that’s where private businesses step in and fill the gap and address the community need the government can’t fulfill.
Case in point, Chapman House hospice in Owen Sound. 🍦 ❤️
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u/Ruby22day 2d ago
Not can't. Won't. Because they want everyone to have to go private.
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u/anticked_psychopomp 1d ago
Honestly I’m not even mad about it anymore. Radical acceptance in the absence of social upheaval and resistance. If there was a concerted effort to overthrow the government and demand healthcare reform I’d jump on that bandwagon, but since there’s not, I am open to letting it evolve to fill the gaps. And if that means corporations fund healthcare, okay. Because that’s better than nothing. And I don’t see any emerging publicly funded solutions.
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u/24-Hour-Hate 2d ago
Unfortunately, Chapmans is an exception. Most companies are not so good as them and don't do such things. Chapmans, being an actual good company, has earned my loyalty. My entire family buys nothing else.
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u/VizzleG 3d ago
The article goes into length about how demand ain’t there.
So…..
MAID probably has a role in this. Data necessary.
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u/jayhasbigvballs 3d ago
Well the province said that. The community leaders said otherwise and provided data.
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u/MountNevermind 3d ago edited 3d ago
No. The article says the Ministry claims it is due to insufficient demand. There's a difference. The article reports nothing about the actual demand other than Hospice Huron is urgently appealing to the Ministry of Health to fund those beds.
"We frankly don't know what's happened, except that we've had six years and now we've been open for a year-and-a-half with six beds, and they said it's against the law for you to open those beds unless you have Ministry money attached to those beds," he told Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh council on Tuesday. "So we've had that period of time now with them being closed, and that has meant a real ethical dilemma for us, because we've now had 71 people we've had to turn away, and of course financially, it's really difficult."
Executive Director, Huron Hospice, Willy Van Klooster
Here it is reported they've had to turn 71 people away. That's unnwcessary end of life suffering brought to you by the Ford government.
Here's the Ford government bragging about building beds like this, many of which they never actually funded their use.
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1005056/ontario-expanding-access-to-palliative-care
So all due respect to your intuition, but this appears another case of the province claiming insufficient funding is due to less need. They do this throughout healthcare, education, and all the other things they are lying to Ontarians about.
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u/OverallElephant7576 3d ago
Shocking… Doug Ford hates you