Act now for better long-term care.

Appalling conditions, overworked staff, rampant profiteering, devastating loss of life.

Canada’s long-term care is in crisis.

Frontline health care workers have been sounding the alarm on conditions for years, but governments have failed to take responsibility and act.

Vulnerable nursing home residents, and the workers who are struggling to care for them, are suffering. They deserve better.

Don’t look away. Conditions will only get worse if we don’t act.

Join Canada’s nurses and email Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister of Health Mark Holland and your Member of Parliament. Tell them we need better long-term care now!

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Dear [recipient name will go here],

Like millions across our country, I am appalled by the recent reports of disturbing conditions in Canada’s long-term care homes.

Frontline health care workers have been sounding the alarm on conditions for years, but have been met with a reprehensible lack of action.

As a nation, we must resolve to do whatever it takes to end the crisis. We must protect our vulnerable nursing home residents and the workers who are struggling to care for them.

I join the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and call on you to take immediate action to:
- Bring long-term care in Canada into the public health care system and regulate it according to the fundamental principles of the Canada Health Act;
- Eliminate for-profit business from the long-term care sector;
- Match wages and benefits for long-term care workers to the value of the work they perform; 
- Ensure a minimum of 4.5 hours of direct care per resident per day; and
- Require appropriate staffing and health & safety protections for workers and residents.

Our federal health care dollars should be targeted and increased for long-term care, community, home and residential care for seniors. To ensure our seniors are getting the standard of care they deserve, federal funding for long-term care must be tied to meeting the new national standards.

We all have a duty and responsibility to protect seniors, residents and health care workers.

I urge you to finally heed nurses and have the courage to do what is needed.

Sincerely,
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