Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, describes the More Beds Better Care Act as “fundamentally discriminatory” against the frail and elderly.
Mehra says there is currently no way to appeal if patients are forced somewhere they don’t want to go.She says details of the planned legal fight will be revealed at a joint press conference Monday co-hosted by the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly. The rules apply to hospital patients deemed by doctors to need an "alternate level of care" who have been placed on a wait-list to get into a long-term care home. The province said there are about 1,800 such patients across the province.She says Bill 7 allows hospitals or discharge planners to override patient consent to secure a bed as far as 70 kilometres away in southern Ontario and 150 kilometres away in northern regions.
“We've looked through the waitlist all across Ontario to see which long-term care homes have the lowest waitlist and those will be the places. They include the homes that the military went into during the pandemic and found just horrific conditions."
This stuff is insane. These patients have been discharged and do not need to take up a valuable hospital bed. We learned during the pandemic how vital capacity is. The previous govt allowed an opt out that made this crisis worse
CP24 why are your reporters misleading the public claiming the CUPE situation is the 'second strike' this month
Health coalition is a fraud and not experts in anything except being socialist supporters of the NDP. Stop quoting them
Hope they lose for the good of us all
Hospitals aren’t residential homes. They’re taking up beds. It costs tax payers over $1000 a night to keep them there
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