The Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-09-24, Page 291
Health
nursing
RY JACK RIDDELL, M.P.P.
HURON -MIDDLESEX
As part of an overall strategy to improve
the quality of care for nursing home
residents, Health Minister Murray Elston
has announced a re -organization of the
ministry's Nursing Homes Branch. These
changes will streamline the ministry's in-
spection system to make legislation gover-
ning nursing homes more enforceable and
allow for greater consultation between the
ministry and nursing home owners.
Health Minister Elston also announced
that the Ministry of Health will provide ad-
ditional funding of some $14.3 million to
improve the quality of care for nursing
home residents. The special funding will
commence October 1 this year and will be
used for more extensive staff training, the
provision of better products for incontinent
residents and organized activates, from ex-
ercise to cultural events, to meet the
physical, emotional and intellectual needs
of nursing home residents. These
measures were recommended by the Nur-
sing Home Residents' Complaints Com-
mittee, appointed by the Health Ministry
in March, 1985.
Under the ministry re-organization,the
Nursing Home Branch will be divided into
a compliance section and enforcement sec-
tion. "This division of responsibilities
should promote a more positive relation-
ship with the majority of nursing homes
and _strengthen enforcement for the
minority of poor performance homes,"
Mr. Elston said.
"The ministry hopes to introduce pro-
posed amendments to the legislation this
fall that deal with ownership, financial
disclosure and the quality of nursing home
life," Mr. Elston said.
NEW VENTURES:
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The Ontario government recognizes the
importance of small business to the growth
of the provincial economy and that they
employ 50 percent of the private sector
workforce. For this reason, the New Ven-
tures program designed to help small
businesses succeed in Ontario, has three
goals: to promote success for new
businesses; to provide access to funding
through loan guarantees; and to ensure
that entrepreneurs have fully researched
their ideas by means of a comprehensive
business plan.
"New Ventures is a small business in-
itiative that guarantees start-up loans of
up to $15,000 to qualified entrepreneurs",
Premier David Peterson said. New Ven-
tures was developed through the govern-
ment's Committee of Parliamentary
Assistants for Small Business, chaired by
MPP Rick Ferraro, in co-operation with
mister streamlines
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Ministry
will continue
to support
Plowing Match
the Ministry of
Technology.
It allows people who are starting new
businesses to obtain a loan fora yr -up
financing without .putting up
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lateral. The Province of Ontario will
guarantee the loan. The banks and trust
companies participating in the New Ven-
tures Program include the Royal Bank,
Toronto Dominion, Bank of Nova Scotia,
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,
Bank of Montreal and V & PG National
Trust.
Industry, Trade and
MORE INVESTMENT
IN ONTARIO CULTURE '
Premier David Peterson recently an-
nounced the ektension of the Small
Business Development Corporation Pro-
gram (SBDC) to permit investment in
Canadian -owned Ontario -based film pro-
duction and distribution companies, sound
recording companies, medium sized
periodical publishing companies and cer-
tain specific commercial theatre
productions.
The SBDC program gives incentives to
both individuals and corporations to invest
in small business. This incentive is equal
to 25 per cent of the amount paid for new
,issues of equity shares in an SBDC. The
funds of the
Ca adianbus nes es located inin
Ontario.
PLANNING GRANTS
Community planning grants totalling
$21,625 have been awarded to the County of
Huron, Municipal Affairs Minister Ber-
nard Grandmaitre announced last week.
Mr. Grandmaitre said the grants will
help the County to prepare a strategic plan
for the Huron County Department of Plan-
ning and Development, and toprepare depart-
ment's
to guide the County planning
use of computer technology.
Community planning grants are
to encourage municipalitiesuesttct resolve
o reflect
land use planning
municipal and economic priorities.
The grants may also be used .for special
studies, to develop conununity improve-
ment policies; to determine the feasibility
of using data processing technology in the
local planning process; and to assist in im-
plementing the Planning Act.
A community planning grant of $4,243
has also been awarded to the County of
Huron on behalf of the Township of
Usborne.
WATERMAIN GRANT
Tuckersmith Township will be receiving
an $81,297 grant my colleague, Jim
Bradley, Minister of the Environment has
announced. It will assist the township to
update the water supply for Egmondville.
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The International Plowing Match and
Farm Machinery Show will receive as
much, if not more, support from the
Ministry of Agriculture and Food under a
new agreement signed in June.
Agriculture and Food Minister Jack Rid-
dell said some of the assistance which will
be provided in the future will be in a dif-
ferent form under the agreement signed
with the Ontario Plowmen's Association.
"Currently, the ministry provides ad-
ministrative as well as financial support in
the running of the plowing match. The
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ministry supplies the general manager and
other staff as well as many other services,
Riddell said.
The overall provincial expenditure on
staffing, provincial police, the Ministry of
Transportation and Communcations and
other services associated with the plowing
match is more than $300,000 a year.
Over the next five years, the ad-
ministrative responsibility for the match
will be turned over the the plowmen's
association under the agreement.
This will allow the ,association to gain
autonomy in the management of its own af-
fairs and to accept complete responsibility
for the management of the plowing match.
In order to fully cover the costs the
plowmen's association will incure in hiring
additional administrative staff, the ministry
will provide the association with $464,000 in
grants over the next five years.
The ministry will also continue to provide
many other services. When combined with
the grants, the value of these additional ser-
vices add up to as much, if not more, than
the existing level of support to the
plowmen's association.
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