The Local Analyzes 17,500 Ontario Long-Term Care Inspection Reports to Quantify Provincial Oversight Failures
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Summary
The Local analyzed 17,500 long-term care inspection reports from Ontario's Ministry of Long-Term Care, spanning over a decade. These publicly available but siloed documents contain rich data on how nursing homes function and how often they fail to meet provincial standards for elder care. The investigation represents the first comprehensive attempt to quantify the results of these inspections, revealing systemic issues in long-term care oversight.
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They go back more than a decade, rich in data about how the homes function, and how often they fail to meet legislated standards for elder care.
But these reports are dense, technical, and siloed—each one is listed separately, and if you wanted to find a count of how many times a home has been penalized, and
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