RETIREMENT HOMES EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Retirement Home Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: July 21, 2021

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Retirement Homes:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• LETTER & EVENTS: Call for Human Rights Inquiry Into Systemic Discrimination Against the Elderly in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care (March 16, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Over Two Thousand Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2 – Data updated to March 3 (March 12, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Second Wave in Long-Term Care Infections & Deaths have Surpassed First Wave – Data updated to February 9 (February 17, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to December 1 (December 3, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: COVID Numbers in Health Care Outbreaks Escalating Dramatically – Data Updated to November 17 (November 19, 2020)
• INTEGRITY COMPLAINT: Health Coalition Requests Integrity Commissioner Investigate Political Donations & High-Level Personnel Links Between For-Profit LTC Industry and Ford Government Prior to Passage of Legal Liability Bil (November 16, 2020)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Is Experiencing Exponential Growth of COVID-19 Cases In Long-Term Care – OHC’s Roundup of Most Recent Case Numbers (November 10, 2020)
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 218 (November 4, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to October 28 (November 3, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Rate of Increase in COVID-19 among Staff, Residents, and Patients in Ontario’s Health Care Settings More Than Doubled: Coalition Fears Second Wave in Long-Term Care (September 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Ford Government Must Be Transparent About COVID-19 Outbreaks, Improve Public Access to Information: Health Coalition Releases Updated Reports on Outbreaks in Health & Non-Health Sectors (September 9, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to July 13 (July 23, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to June 17 (June 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Most Recent Tracking Report Shows that Ministry of Long-Term Care & Public Health Ontario Have Discontinued Public Reporting of Vital COVID-19 Data, Outbreaks in Health Settings Down but Death Rate Continues to Rise (June 23, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to June 2 (June 5, 2020)
• REPORT: New Report on COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Settings – Data Updated to May 19 (June 2, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 outbreaks in health settings almost doubled, death toll up by 333.7% – Data updated to May 5 (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Staff & Patients Infected by COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Almost Doubled, Death Toll increased by 333.7 % in 2-weeks: Outbreaks are Not Under Control (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: COVID-19 Death Rates in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes Significantly Higher and Increasing in For-Profit Homes vs. Non-Profit and Publicly-Owned Homes: New Data Analysis (May 6, 2020)
• SUBMISSION: OHC Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy Regarding Bill 21: An Act to Regulate Retirement Homes (May 10, 2010)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• RESOURCES: Briefing for Long-Term Care Families: Access for Visitors and Essential Caregivers (January 14, 2021)
• LEGAL OPINION: on Retirement Homes Act (Bill 21): Concerns for Human Rights and Public Interest (May 31, 2010)

Media Releases

• RELEASE: New report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths raises red flags despite the Ford government’s suppression of COVID Data (October 21, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health Care System Besieged by COVID-19: Health Coalition demands Ford answer for lack of action (January 20, 2022)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Almost 4,000 Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2: Wave 2 Deaths Exceed Wave I (March 12, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Health Care Outbreaks are Still Fatally High: Long-Term Care Deaths Surpass Wave I & COVID-19 Infections 50% More than Wave I (February 17, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Threaten to Topple Devastating Records Set in the First Wave (January 11, 2021)
• RELEASE: By No Measure are they Under Control: Large Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care, Hospitals, Retirement Homes Escalating Sharply- New Tracking Report (December 3, 2020)
• Call for Access to Justice – Watch Today’s Press Conference on Bill 218 (November 11, 2020)
• RELEASE: Almost Four Dozen People Who Applied to Testify Before the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Bill 218 Limiting Legal Liability for COVID-19 Harms for Long-Term Care Homes and Others, Cut Out of the Hearings Today (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE: 181 COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings leaving 89 residents dead & more than 1,800 staff & patients infected in 6-wks, numbers way up across the board, warns Ontario Health Coalition (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE & EVENT ROUNDUP: Cross-Province Protest Decries Ford’s Inadequate Response to Long-Term Care Crisis (October 8, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Updated Tracking Reports Shows New 30 Outbreaks & Increase in Deaths in Health & Congregate Care Settings; New Outbreaks in Agriculture, Retail, Shelters and other Non-Health Care Industries (July 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & OPEN LETTER: Ford Government Given Failing Marks in Response to Recommendations on Long-Term Care COVID-19 Response in Joint Open Letter from more than 200 Organizations Representing Almost 2 Million Ontarians (June 30, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Death Toll Among Patients, Residents and Staff in Health Care Settings up 18.4% in 2 weeks: OHC Tracking Numbers Still Growing But More Slowly (June 5, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 numbers still escalating in a “devastating” way in Ontario’s long-term care homes: Health Coalition calls a Day of Action to press Ford government for more concrete measures to stop the spread and stabilize the sector (April 30, 2020)
• UPDATE: Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19 – Data updated to April 2 (April 2, 2020)
• UPDATE: Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19 – Data updated to March 30 (March 31, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Roundup: Health Workers/LTC Residents Infected, Government Supports & Relief Measures (March 24, 2020)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (June 4, 2018)