BC NDP
- Hire 7,000 new workers for long-term care and assisted living.
- Restore standards for wages, benefits, and working conditions.
- Build more public care homes.
- Require transparency from private operators.
- Launch a Silver Alert system to help locate missing seniors.
...we're investing $44 million to hire and train 7,000 new health care workers for long-term care homes and assisted living facilities. This Health Career Access Program will provide new opportunities for workers who lost their jobs in other sectors due to COVID-19.
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We will develop a staffing retention strategy that provides workers in long-term care and assisted living with "levelled up wages" even after the pandemic ends, and restore provincial standards for wages, benefits, and working conditions that were cut by the BC Liberals.
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We're working with non-profits to build public care homes that keep seniors safer, healthier, and more comfortable.
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... new requirements that will make sure private operators are more transparent and accountable for the public funding they get.
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Working with community groups and the BC Seniors Advocate, we will develop a made-in-BC Silver Alert system to help assist first responders locate missing seniors, particularly those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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