Toronto Long-Term Care Homes and Services
About Us
New name, same excellent care!
Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division - new name, same excellent care!
After 30 years of being called Toronto Homes for the Aged (HFA), the Division is changing its name to Toronto Long-Term Care Homes and Services.
When the name "Homes for the Aged Division" was created, the City was involved in operating seven homes, focused solely on seniors. Today, the Division has evolved into a community hub for long-term care, providing a variety of programs and services that extend far beyond the doors of the homes, including meals-on-wheels, adult day programs, homemakers and nurses services (home visiting) and supportive housing.
Also, today's residents and community clients include both seniors and younger individuals with disabilities and/or degenerative diseases, who require services over an extended period of time. Residents and clients told us that they prefer the name Long-Term Care Homes and Services as it "includes everything offered to people", and is "a real positive change."
Helping to drive the name change, the Government of Ontario is expected to proclaim the Long-Term Care Homes Act in 2008. The Act notes that long-term care home means a place that is licensed as a long-term care home under the Act and includes nursing homes, charitable homes, municipal homes, joint homes and First Nations homes.
Our Care and Services
Toronto LTC Homes and Services is respected as a leader in long-term care, having received recognition for high quality care and award-winning programs. We work through collaborative models of care, building alliances with other health and social service providers to support residents and clients as their needs change and involving families as partners-in-care. Our goal is to enrich our residents' and clients' lives, while providing the best possible care within our resources.
We practice integrated quality management, with a commitment to continuous quality improvement, diversity practice, a culture of safety and the creation of learning environments.
We are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their background, race, ethnicity, culture, language, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability or economic status.
Our interdisciplinary teams strive to plan, design and provide care and service programs that meet the constantly evolving needs of residents, clients and the communities we serve. Our focus is on providing individualized care that respects, supports and enables people to be as independent as possible. Our scope of services includes:
- 10 long-term care homes, providing both permanent, short-stay and convalescent care
- programs in dementia care and other specialized medical needs
- a range of community support programs, including adult day programs, meal-on-wheels, supportive housing at various locations throughout the city and homemakers and nurses services (home help services for clients living in their own homes in the community).