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Natalia Kusendova-Bashta supports redeveloping long-term care homes to expand capacity. She says her government is proud to support such redevelopments, recognizes an aging population and complex seniors' needs, and is committed to continuing work toward that goal.
She supports expanding long-term care capacity across Ontario, backing significant capital funding (covering up to 85% of costs) to build new homes, emphasizing job benefits for smaller and rural municipalities while acknowledging possible construction timeline uncertainty.
Natalia Kusendova-Bashta confirmed rollout of a $9 million program funding specialized behaviour units and emotion-based dementia care in 17 long-term care homes (expanding to 50 by 2027-28). She describes these programs as innovative supports for residents, families and staff.
Kusendova-Bashta supports improving long-term care by building more homes, hiring more staff, and making historic investments to protect families and their loved ones; she endorses expanding capacity and investing resources to address shortages and waitlists.
As Minister of Long-Term Care, Kusendova-Bashta supports selling unused provincial lands to fund construction of long-term care homes, saying Ontario must protect seniors by building needed long-term care capacity and that the Hamilton site will house 512 modern beds.