[CUPE healthcare list] FW: Stats can release on residential care facilities

["Irene Jansen" <ijansen@cupe.ca>]

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Toby Sanger  
> Sent:	November 22, 2007 10:14 AM
> To:	Researchers - All
> Subject:	Stats can release on residential care facilities
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> Hi: 
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> Statscan released a 127 page report today on residential care facilities, with data for 2005/6 and info broken down by private, non-profit and public.  
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> Here's an excerpt below from the summary in the Daily.  Also, by my calcs, the average aggregate wage and salary in the public facilities are about 14% higher than private, and 7% for non-profits compared to private.   For specific occupations, the differences are no doubt considerably greater.
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> http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/071122/d071122c.htm   
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> The report can be downloaded from:
> http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/83-237-XIE/83-237-XIE2008001.htm
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> The private sector dominated the provision of residential care for the aged. Private facilities represented 40% of total expenditures for such residences in 2005/2006, compared with 33% for public facilities and 28% for non-profits.
> Private facilities also accounted for more than one-half (54%) of residences for the aged, with non-profit and public facilities having similar shares of the rest.
> The private sector had 81,085 approved beds in facilities for the aged in 2005/2006. This corresponded to almost half (49%) of all beds. Private facilities had 76.4 beds per facility, and were smaller than non-profit facilities, which had 95.1, and public facilities, with 89.1.
> Even though they accounted for almost half of beds, private facilities for the aged accounted for only 43% of full-time employees, 37% of part-time employees, 39% of paid hours and 36% of wages.
> Therefore, the per-bed ratios for private facilities were lower than for the other types of facilities. For example, private facilities recorded 1,154 paid hours per bed, on average, compared with 1,598 hours for public facilities and 1,892 hours for non-profit facilities.
> Private residences for the aged provided care at a lower cost than public or non-profit residences in 2005/2006. Private facilities had average expenditures of $39,001 per bed, compared with $52,845 for non-profit facilities and $59,421 for those that were publicly-owned, in Canada outside Quebec.
> This difference held even after taking into account the level of care offered and the size of the facility. Private facilities had the lowest per-bed expenditures, public facilities had the highest, and non-profit facilities were in the middle.
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