Port Hope Friends of LTC

12/31/2024

Dec 13, 2024. The Superior Court of Justice - Ontario Divisional Court has dismissed, on jurisdictional grounds, Southbridge Health Care GP Inc's motion to appeal the decision of the OLT dated February 20, 2023, a decision which upheld Port Hope's right to enforce its zoning bylaws. Our municipality has won against a private equity "health care" developer/landlord whose sole purpose is to enrich its shareholders using provincial dollars. Case dismissed!

07/12/2023

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2242370627772?fbclid=IwAR07TIs056vTCsaRLcl9LLSHljesiFZbsnsLUtfCPhPd-TYZKkMulJau5CwI

Ontario has been promising to fix long-term care, but a CBC News investigation has found many of the promised accountability measures are falling short. The province is also approving and funding expansions for the companies responsible for the highest pandemic death rates in long-term care.

07/12/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/realestate/dementia-villages-senior-living.html?unlocked_article_code=nGCUWXORrKY4NOya5eC1z33D2SZGl48g5GobafNXD9zGa7bPq76OuF_W-byEdjEfBIFJJe53oTLL6v1sCz0M8KFwZTIkIpXoSzYB18_JdjBWpYGbiJSYjDtLcjXXodn5AQ92jcaJKr7e0OsHiDVnhC1E-S7zB2CqJNAaNFuGiBmU1FBm8MA7dgn9Y3_N7t5ECudPWxQv4LQWsA7NVNwkzLvTxFSFDBK9fWNlIcBIDqprECJAOWJnu9zAD0I7c7vRXqmlF3McuLQqNKSCOX4DzFRoEaq1NyP76wdJ0qBkvW2IX5scSDQmvAsbiineH8ro-HiIu42hWiGMsoUnKh3QR_ljN_pdNgnIpp4hTQ&smid=url-share

A new generation of treatment facilities is aiming to integrate dementia patients with the communities around them, blurring lines between home and hospital.

07/12/2023

Safe Harbour Port Hope supports ethical care for our most vulnerable citizens. Our aim is to provide thoughtful, well-designed alternatives to large chains consolidating beds for profit. We are consulting with elders, care workers, physicians, nurses, specialists in dementia, and architects, to provide a solution to the growing problem. Our local facilities are so bad everyone does their best to avoid them, including nurses. There needs to be competition and not just a last resort.

07/09/2023

What we are forced to accept as LTC now are real estate speculators such as Southbridge sucking our tax dollars, companies with little medical knowledge and no liking for eldercare. They outsource management to the lowest bidder, like Extendicare. Their investors are international, their executives are chartered accountants and construction bosses, their passionate desire is for Ontario's public money underwriting their risk. Southbridge's financial plan is to sell off the buildings we paid for, in 5 to 10 years. Thanks so much, Ford, Piccini, and Calandra!

Port Hope can do better. Safe Harbour Port Hope is the working title of our group. We support compassionate care, home care as well as a well designed well-staffed facility. Our neighbours in Cobourg are fortunate to get an expansion of the Golden Plough, a county owned, municipally operated home. Obviously a community based effort.

Learn about our Golden Plough Lodge and County Archives and Museum redevelopment project in Cobourg. The new 180-bed long-term care facility and cultural heritage centre will be built by December 2022.

06/23/2023

Reporter got some names mixed up, oh well...good enough!

“We say yes to long-term care; we say no to Southbridge. We say yes to democracy; we say no to MZO”: Former Port Hope councillor Laurie Carr

06/22/2023

We rallied against the "horridors in the sky" LTC imposed on Port Hope by a Minister's Zoning Order. It was cathartic and shows the support for well-designed, compassionate care. Time to stop just ranting and do something. There is a movement growing to build a nonprofit LTC here and there is leadership. I will post details June 28.
Photos by Fred Gouveia