Ontario NDP Releases 8-Year Plan to Overhaul Long-Term Care System

The Altamont Care Community long-term care home, where more than 50 people died after contracting COVID-19, is shown in Toronto on May 26, 2020. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath plans to end for-profit long-term care and build smaller care homes, if she becomes premier when election time rolls around in 2022.

At an event Friday morning, Horwath outlined the party’s proposed to overhaul to the long-term care system in a new model built on small, family-like homes rather than institution-like facilities.