Ottawa-Alberta Health Accord: more money for mental health and home care
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OTTAWA – After months of negotiations and threats of walkouts, Ottawa has reached health agreements with Quebec, Ontario and Alberta.
Over the next decade, the federal government will pass Ottawa and $1.3 billion. Of that amount, $703.2 million has been allocated for better home care and will infrastructure requirements, while $586 million has been tagged for support of mental health initiatives.
A news release states, “Under this funding agreement, the province will be getting its respective share of the investment in home care and mental health outlined by the federal government at the Finance and Health Ministers’ Meeting in December.”
The federal dollars come with the expectation that provincial governments will “develop performance indicators and mechanisms for annual reporting to citizens, as well as a detailed plan on how these funds will be spent, over and above existing programs.”
