{"id":25300,"date":"2018-02-06T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=25300"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:56:16","slug":"mon-sheong-starts-150-million-drive-to-build-three-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=25300","title":{"rendered":"Mon Sheong starts $150 million drive to build three nursing homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tim-Kwan-at-a-Press-Conference-2018-01_w200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25302 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tim-Kwan-at-a-Press-Conference-2018-01_w200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tim-Kwan-at-a-Press-Conference-2018-01_w200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tim-Kwan-at-a-Press-Conference-2018-01_w200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Mon Sheong Foundation CEO Stephanie Wong and Chairperson Tim Kwan, seen at a Jan. 30 press conference in Scarborough, say the organization hopes to build 600 more long-term-care beds in Greater Toronto in the next 10 years. Imagine 17 persons waiting for the same nursing home bed, and you\u2019ll understand the challenge for the Mon Sheong Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The charity housing Chinese seniors announced Jan. 30 it plans to build three new long-term care facilities with a total of 600 beds in the GTA over the next 10 years. That will cost $150 million, but the number of Chinese seniors in the GTA is rising fast, and by Mon Sheong\u2019s count there\u2019s only 3,500 nursing home beds offering culturally appropriate care&#8230;..(<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Report-from-Scarborough-Mirror-Inside-Toronto-Feb-5-18-MSF.pdf\">read the whole story<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon Sheong Foundation CEO Stephanie Wong and Chairperson Tim Kwan, seen at a Jan. 30 press conference in Scarborough, say the organization hopes to build 600 more long-term-care beds in Greater Toronto in the next 10 years. Imagine 17 persons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=25300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-25300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer","tag-jm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25307,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300\/revisions\/25307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}