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Health and Safety Standards for Assisted Living Residences
Under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act, assisted living operators must ensure occupants' health and safety is not jeopardized. Upon registration, which takes effect on September 30, 2004, all operators must comply with health and safety standards. These standards will be contained in provincial regulations.
The Ministry has developed proposed health and safety
standards (PDF 273Kb)  and
associated Registrar's health and safety policies, including medication
services (PDF 98Kb) ,
with key stakeholders. The Registrar has adopted the Ministry's personal
assistance guidelines (PDF 640Kb) as
a standard for the delivery of personal assistance services.
The Registrar anticipates the assisted living industry will take a lead role in developing best practice standards for assisted living residences. Best practices will help the industry to ensure consumers are comfortable with, and have confidence in, assisted living residences.
Some of the important areas that will be covered in the standards are:
- operator and staffing requirements;
- the need for a fire safety plan;
- personal assistance services; and
- emergency preparedness.
The Registrar will enforce the health and safety standards through a complaint resolution process.
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Last Revised:
December 17, 2007
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