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Inspection Results
The Health Ministry completed Resident Quality Inspections (RQIs) on 600 of the 630 long-term care homes in Ontario in 2015.
Table 1 below provides information about the number of Written Notifications (WNs), Voluntary Plans of Correction (VPC) and Compliance Orders (CO) issued as a result of these RQIs, by Service Area.
Table 1: Resident Quality Inspections by Service Area for homes inspected in 2015
|
|
Number of Homes/ Number of RQIs |
Total WNs |
Average WN per Home |
Total VPCs |
Average VPC per Home |
Total Compliance Orders |
Average CO per Home |
|
Hamilton |
124/122 |
1659 |
13.6 |
841 |
6.9 |
219 |
1.8 |
|
London |
151/144 |
1046 |
7.3 |
661 |
4.6 |
127 |
.88 |
|
Ottawa |
143/140 |
1235 |
8.8 |
531 |
3.8 |
110 |
.71 |
|
Sudbury |
70/61 |
825 |
13.5 |
400 |
6.6 |
138 |
2.3 |
|
Toronto |
142/133 |
1417 |
10.7 |
516 |
3.9 |
35 |
.26 |
|
Totals |
630/600 |
6182 |
10.3 |
2994 |
5.0 |
619 |
1.0 |
Table 2: 2014 RQIs by Service Area.
All 629 homes were inspected between July 2013 and February 2015
|
|
Total Homes Reviewed |
Total WNs |
Average WN per Home |
Total VPCs |
Average VPC per Home |
Total Compliance Orders |
Average CO |
|
Hamilton |
125 |
1779 |
14.2 |
891 |
7.1 |
225 |
1.8 |
|
London |
149 |
1534 |
10.3 |
861 |
5.8 |
159 |
1.1 |
|
Ottawa |
164 |
1705 |
10.4 |
621 |
3.8 |
127 |
0.8 |
|
Sudbury |
69 |
838 |
12.1 |
312 |
4.5 |
111 |
1.6 |
|
Toronto |
122 |
1637 |
13.4 |
752 |
6.2 |
63 |
.52 |
|
Totals |
629 |
7407 |
11.8 |
3386 |
5.4 |
670 |
1.1 |
Note: The Average WN, VPC and CO issued per home is slightly lower in 2015 than in 2014.