Long-term care Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and ...

facilities in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

exist under three types: public, subsidized and private. Public and subsidized differ only in their ownership, all other aspects of funding, admission criteria, cost to the individuals are all regulated by the Provincial governments. In

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, the regulatory body is the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services. In

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

, for-profit companies run 57 per cent of long-term care homes, charities run 24 per cent and municipalities 17 per cent. Private facilities are completely independent from

government ownership State ownership, also called government ownership and public ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, or enterprise by the state or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. Public ownership ...

and funding, they have their own admission criteria. They must maintain certain provincial standards, and they require

licensing A license (or licence) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...

from the ministry. The French term ''centre d'hébergement de soins de longue durée'', or ''CHSLD'', is commonly used in both English and French to refer to nursing homes in the predominantly francophone province of Quebec.Jesse Feith
"Inquest into CHSLD death resumes with focus on Manoir Liverpool in Lévis"
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Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...

'', April 12, 2021. In 2020, Canadian film director

François Delisle François Delisle (born March 22, 1967) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, actor, and composer. Career Between 1987 and 1990, Delisle directed several experimental short films. Some were selected for v ...

released '' CHSLD'', a short documentary film about his aging mother's stay in a nursing home.Isabelle Morin
"La vie où elle s’éteint"
'' La Presse'', November 23, 2020.

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