About Not-For-Profit Care
What is the not-for-profit difference?
Not-for-profit seniors’ care organizations champion a model of care anchored in compassion, respect, and kindness. Our members are driven by our mission to provide the very best in seniors’ care, not by the need to generate profits. In fact, not-for-profit organizations invest every dollar into expanding care, services and operations that support seniors.
Care People Want
Ontarians want more not-for-profit care—two out of every three people waiting for long-term care choose a not-for-profit or municipal home as their first choice. Of the more than 37,000 Ontarians on the waitlist for a long-term care bed, more than 26,000 are waiting for a bed in not-for-profit homes.
Better Outcomes
Recent Canadian research shows that not-for-profit homes have significantly lower mortality and hospitalization rates than for-profit homes.
Better Care
Our shareholders are the communities in which we operate. With care as our primary motivator, we can do things like provide more hours of direct care per day, more cultural and community-specific programming, more activities, offer newer facilities and even more nutritious and delicious food.
Not-for-profit operators that generate a surplus re-invest these monies to enhance or increase the level of service provided to residents. Additionally, not-for-profits typically contribute additional resources to their operation to further enhance care and services.
Focused on Community
Not-for-profit long-term care homes are community-owned and community-led. Whether owned by a municipality or local not-for-profit organization, community is baked into our formal structure. Our homes are a reflection of the people around them.
For example, we have homes geared specifically to Korean, Chinese, Jewish, Mennonite, Francophone, LGBTQ2S+ and other specific cultural and religious communities. In Ontario, there are 70 cultural and religious long-term care homes and the vast majority of them are not-for-profit.
As well, not-for-profits have a very rich history of supporting seniors in communities across the province. They have been leaders in building campuses of care and in introducing innovative care concepts, such as the Butterfly model.
Discover More about the Types of Care and Housing
There are many types of housing and care options across the seniors’ care continuum.
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Where Do I Start?
Looking for information on not-for-profit long term care homes, housing and community services for seniors? Let us help guide you in understanding the system in Ontario so you can make the decisions that are right for you.