Huron County Council Recently Received A Staff Report Titled ‘Terms of Reference for Long Term Care Homes’

by Bob Montgomery

Huron County CAO Meighan Wark presented a report titled Terms of Reference for Long Term Care Homes to county council recently.

Staff regularly provides council with an update on their list of priorities. Wark says council had asked that they take a few extra days looking at the two county long-term homes, Huronview and Huronlea, to get an idea of what was happening in the county’s long-term care homes, and then compare that with what was happening in the long-term care homes across the province.

Council received the report, and a request from staff to hire a consultant to look at what expenses the county could expect from the two homes in the future, and have that information available as they prepare the 2025 budget. And then county council can decide on proceeding with any projects.

One of the problems Wark says the county and the province are dealing with is that the health care system is currently not tooled to support the number of clients that they have in Ontario and across the county. So coming up with a strategy for the county to deal with that will be a significant challenge. Wark says demographics are changing in rural communities, and they have to think proactively about what that's going to mean.

Meigham Wark - Huron County CAO