The province’s under-staffed long-term care homes are growing ever more violent, where resident-on-resident altercations are becoming more commonplace and the homicide rate is seven times higher than some of Canada’s largest cities, according to a recent report from the Ontario Health Coalition.
“It is higher than virtually anywhere in our society, and that is unacceptable,” Patty Coates, secretery-treasurer on the Ontario Federation of Labour and a board member with the Ontario Health Coalition, said during a recent news conference at the south-end Barrie library branch.