Ontario begins unannounced inspections of nursing homes.TORONTO -- The Ontario government has initiated a program of unannounced annual inspections of the province's nursing homes and created a toll-free phone line for families to register their complaints. Minister George Smitherman George Smitherman MPP (born 1964) is a Canadian politician, who represents the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is notable for being the first openly gay Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) elected in Ontario, and the first openly nursing homes a "top priority" of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The province's 544 nursing homes will no longer advance notice of annual inspections. A toll-free phone number (1-866-434-0144) will be promoted through a poster campaign. Fourteen ministry employees have been assigned to deal specifically with long-term care long-term care (LTC), n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders. issues. A registered nurse and compliance adviser will work with them to determine which calls need immediate action. MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. Monique Smith Monique M. Smith is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Nipissing for the Liberal Party. , Smitherman's parliamentary assistant who had earlier been given the nursing home file, is now making unannounced visits to homes across the province and will be filing a report within two months. Over 65,000 persons reside in ontario's nursing home, including the elderly and persons with disabilities. The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Suicide prevention is an umbrella term for the collective efforts of mental health practitioners and related professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide through proactive preventive measures. / L'association canadienne pour la prevention du suicide has published a draft blueprint of a national strategy for suicide prevention strategy. The organizations is interested in receiving feedback from Canadians regarding this blueprint. The document can be downloaded from the website (www.suicideprevention.ca) [GRAPHIC OMITTED] |
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