![]() “It’s a shame that we actually had to put a program in place that air conditions the homes, but we’re there now, 99 per cent done, and just a couple more left to go,” Calandra told The Canadian Press in an interview. ![]() The province is now conducting an inspection blitz, as the warm weather arrives, to ensure homes are complying with legislation that mandates air conditioning in resident rooms. The government has granted exemptions to those eight homes and recently fined a ninth one. Two homes have electrical capacity issues but are being redeveloped and will eventually have AC. ![]() Three of those are expected to have units installed by the end of May, and three more are on track to have AC this summer. Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said only nine of the 625 nursing homes in Ontario remain without air conditioning in resident rooms. ![]() Nearly 99 per cent of nursing homes in Ontario now have air conditioning in residents’ rooms, almost a year after the province set a deadline for the requirement. ![]()
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