Ontario Latest Province to Look at Controlling Management of Some Long Term Care Homes

A health care worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) works with a resident on a balcony at the Laurier Manor in Ottawa, a long term care facility experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19, on April 26, 2020. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—The Ontario government now has an emergency power to control the management of privately run long-term care homes as the COVID-19 outbreak affecting Canada’s most vulnerable seniors continues.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the order Wednesday morning, saying in a statement it will mean Ontario is better prepared to “immediately swing into action if a home is struggling to contain this deadly virus.”