{"title":"Commentary: Critical to Care - The Problem of Profit in Ontario's Long-Term Care Home Sector.","authors":"Susan Braedley","doi":"10.12927/hcpol.2024.27483","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The search for profit in the Ontario long-term care (LTC) home sector means that inspections and fines are unlikely to drive quality improvement. For-profit ownership, operations and contracts thwart accountability for quality and financial stewardship while blocking full public reporting, thus preventing public oversight. Laying out the problems presented by the for-profit LTC homes' financial and operations infrastructure with examples, this commentary presents policy paths forward to address the problem of profit and improve accountability.</p>","PeriodicalId":39389,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Policy","volume":"20 1","pages":"41-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Healthcare Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2024.27483","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The search for profit in the Ontario long-term care (LTC) home sector means that inspections and fines are unlikely to drive quality improvement. For-profit ownership, operations and contracts thwart accountability for quality and financial stewardship while blocking full public reporting, thus preventing public oversight. Laying out the problems presented by the for-profit LTC homes' financial and operations infrastructure with examples, this commentary presents policy paths forward to address the problem of profit and improve accountability.