Peter Shawn Taylor: Why Canada Needs for Profit Nursing Homes
By: Peter Shawn Taylor
Amid accusations that for-profit long term care is a moral abomination, more thoughtful voices recognize a diversity of outcomes across the entire industry. According to Michal Nicin, executive director of the National Institute on Ageing at Ryerson University in Toronto, “Some of the private homes are doing exceptionally well because they have deeper pockets and much better planning procedures” than non-profits. “It is not clear to me that one class of ownership structure is doing noticeably better than any others.”
