The province is investing $300-million over the next three years to increase the quality of service that seniors receive in long-term care facilities.
This money will go towards hiring an additional registered nurse at every long-term care home and an increase in daily care that each resident will receive, bringing the average to four hours per day.
It will also mean 220 new beds for northern Ontario.
Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault announced this morning that 54 of them will be added in Sudbury, 88 beds in Sault Ste. Marie, 46 in Haileybury and 32 in Moosonee.
Thibeault says 5,000 new beds in Ontario will be added in the next four years and over 30,000 over the next decade.
Thursday's announcement also includes a 4.6% increase for hospitals.
