title: Observations on institutional long-term care in Ontario: 1996-2002.
abstract: We provide descriptive statistics for data collected via the Residential Care Facilities Survey (RCFS), from long-term care (LTC) facilities operating in Ontario between 1996 and 2002. The LTC sector in Ontario is dominated by large, proprietary for-profit facilities. The proportion of residents receiving extended care has increased from 53 per cent in 1996 to over 61 per cent in 2002. Government-owned facilities are significantly larger than both for-profit proprietary facilities and lay non-profit facilities. Religious and lay non-profit facilities provide care to more residents 85 years of age and older than do for-profit and government-owned facilities, while government-owned facilities provide care to a greater proportion of higher needs residents. Government-owned facilities have higher nursing intensity levels and higher direct care staffing levels than other ownership types, while for-profit facilities have significantly lower levels than other facility types. Non-profit operators have higher ratios of administrative to care staff than proprietary and government-owned facilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto McMurrich Building, 2nd Floor, 12 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada. whit.berta@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Whitney
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Berta
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laporte
authors.forename: Vivian
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Valdmanis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009864:Ontario