Money promised to improve care of BC seniors may soon be delivered
Posted January 26, 2018 6:18 am.
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SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Significant funding promised to improve the care of BC seniors may be delivered today in Surrey, where Health Minister Adrian Dix is the keynote speaker at the 2nd annual BC Continuing Care Collaborative.
Daniel Fontaine with the BC Care Providers Association is confident Dix will release more details about a promise made last year to spend more than $45 million to hire at least 1,500 care providers.
He adds it’s part of a bigger plan to spend at least half a billon dollars over the next four years.
“We will all be listening very eagerly to the minister, as he makes his address to the assembled delegates regarding what his strategies are to get those $500 million flowing into the system as quickly as possible,” says Fontaine.
“The minister indicated that his preference would be the $500 million begin flowing and that it go into priority to make sure that those with the lowest level of direct care would start getting funded as quickly as possible, so we’re hopeful.”
Last week, Dix told NEWS 1130 that money — initially promised by the former Liberal government — is still coming and more details will be released during the event in Surrey.
