{"id":47826,"date":"2025-08-05T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47826\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:34:07","slug":"ontario-spends-89m-to-make-long-term-care-program-for-seniors-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47826\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario spends $89M to make long-term care program for seniors permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Ontario provincial government is spending $89 million to make the community paramedicine for long-term care (CPLTC) program permanent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program first launched provincewide in 2020 and\u00a0provides 24\/7 aid to seniors requiring non-emergency medical support like routine diagnostics, the government said in a news release Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Community paramedics can ease the burden of long hospital wait times by keeping seniors out of hospital and preventing medical conditions from escalating, the news release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government says the additional funds will also help expand the program to First Nations communities, including\u00a0to a newly certified paramedic service by the Independent First Nations Alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re ensuring that seniors \u2014 including those in northern and remote First Nations \u2014 can receive the care they need, right in their own homes,&#8221; Indigenous Affairs Minister Greg Rickford said in the news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program has served over 81,000 people since its launch, according to the news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People are eligible for CPLTC if they are:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Already on a\u00a0waitlist for long-term care.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Eligible for long-term care but not on the waitlist.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Soon to be eligible for long-term care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario provincial government is spending $89 million to make the community paramedicine for long-term care (CPLTC) program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-47826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}