Staff from Fairhaven long-term-care home presented Peterborough County council with good news Wednesday on three fronts: there is a zero-budget increase request for 2023, the facility has already reached four hours of care per resident per day (something that the province mandated happen by 2024) and it hired its “very own” nurse practitioner last week. The majority of Fairhaven’s funding (more than 70 per cent) comes from the Ministry of Long-Term Care, but funding is also provided by the county, which owns one third of the facility, and the city, which owns two thirds.
