Providing More Care, Protecting Seniors, and Building More Beds Act, 2021

What happened · Aug 13, 2025

The legislated provincial average of four hours by March 31, 2025 was missed (3 hours 49 minutes, 95.5% of the goal, for 2024-25), but the government reported reaching 4 hours 5 minutes in April–June 2025.

The Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021 set yearly targets ending with a provincewide average of four hours of nurse and PSW care per resident per day by March 31, 2025. The first two interim targets were met, but the third-year target (3 hours 42 minutes) was missed, and for 2024-25 the ministry reported 95.5% of the four-hour goal (3 hours 49 minutes), a shortfall CBC/The Canadian Press reported on Aug. 13, 2025. On Oct. 16, 2025 the government said residents received an average of 4 hours 5 minutes of PSW and nursing care in the first quarter of 2025-26, so the target was reached a few months late. The figures are provincial averages, not a per-home or per-resident guarantee.

What happened · Jun 22, 2022

The mandate came about two years later, with a June 22, 2022 deadline that 98 of 627 homes missed. Most homes complied afterward.

A year after the vow, CBC reported in June 2021 that the province still had not mandated air conditioning in residents' rooms. The rule came in under the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021 and its regulation (O. Reg. 246/22), with a deadline of June 22, 2022. On June 24, 2022 the ministry said 529 of 627 homes were fully air-conditioned. By late August, 554 complied and two homes had been fined $1,100 each, and by October 2022 CBC reported that more than 90% of homes complied. Infrastructure Ontario later said that all but three homes, which had temporary exemptions, had air conditioning in every resident bedroom.