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Study reaffirms lower quality in for-profit long term care
The Institute for Research in Public Policy (IRPP), one of Canada’s most respected public policy think tanks, just released a study of ownership in long term care facilities in Canada entitled: Residential Long-Term Care for Canada's Seniors: Nonprofit, For-Profit or Does it Matter?

 

The study examines the implications of ownership for quality of resident care and finds that for-profit ownership is associated with lower quality of care. Four years ago, MNU released a report on Long Term Care in Manitoba and identified this concern.

MNU also made a number of recommendations, some of which are made by the authors of the IRPP study, including that long term care facilities be subject to unannounced inspections.

You can access the IRPP report here .