The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and Advocacy Committee of Family Council are seeking a minimum for how long personal support workers and nurses spend with patients in long-term care facilities.

The Time to Care act was introduced as a Private Member’s Bill in October.

Committee chair, Tom Carrothers says people need to be made aware of the lack of standards in the these government-regulated facilities.

He says it affects 80,000 loved ones across the province is hoping politics doesn’t play a factor in the voting process.

The group is on the path for at least four hours of minimum care during the day.

Carrothers says it’s not exactly four hours for each patient, it could be two here and another hour for another person.

The four-hour standard was the result of surveys and test done in long-term care facilities but Carrothers says that research was done nearly a decade ago.

Meanwhile the Private Members Bill (Bill 33) has yet to make it past the first reading at Queen’s Park.