Six days after 3,000 nurses and care coordinators walked off the job, the impact is starting to be felt.

Staff at Community Care Access Centres (CCAC) are asking for the same wage increases hospital nurses received - 2.8 per cent over two years - but so far, their employers are offering wage freezes.

Now the union and hospital employees say the strike is having an impact on home care.

The people on strike co-ordinate care and therapy for patients leaving hospitals, for elderly people trying to get into a long-term care home, for children who need speech or other therapies and others who need nurses or personal support workers in the home.

And while Dr. Eric Hoskins, Ontario's minister of health, reminded people Wednesday that 93 per cent of all out-patients see a nurse at home within five days, the union says that won't be the case for long.

"Eighty-four per cent of individuals are getting their services from a [personal support worker] within that five-day wait time target," Hoskins says.

At least according to data from 2013. That's the most recent data the government says is available. But Ariel Beaudoin, with the Ontario Nurses Association, and her colleagues don't think those numbers will hold up much longer.

"There's people every day who suddenly need access to care. People every day that their family realizes, they need help, and they're the ones calling and we're not able to get some of those referrals going quite as effectively."

That's because they're marching outside, away from their jobs, while managers try to keep up with the requests.

NDP MPP Peggy Sattler was handing out coffee to picketing workers Wednesday, trying to keep up their morale, and body temperatures.

"The province is not adequately funding home care in the province, and it's hitting communities hard," she says.

Hoskins also repeated a funding commitment made last year on Wednesday, says "We're investing an additional $75 million this year, to help us achieve that five-day wait time target."

But those on strike say those targets won't be reached - if they aren't back at work.