Can Ontario force hospital patients into long-term care homes? It's complicated

[shockedcanadian]

Forced into LTC.

Ontario is not an ally to the West. Police States always end the same.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-hospital-patients-ltc-human-rights-1.6562413

Advocates are gearing up for legal battles against Ontario's plan to move elderly and chronically ill patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes, with lawyers warning the proposed change is a breach of patients' human rights.

Under legislation unveiled last week, hospital patients who are deemed to no longer require acute care, but still need an "alternate level of care," could be admitted to an LTC home chosen without their input — potentially far away from family members and loved ones who play a critical role in their day-to-day care.

Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra initially said no patients would be forced to go to a home they didn't want to live in, but has since said that those who refuse a placement should have to pay hospital charges for their ongoing stay.

Doctors, lawyers and advocates say the government's plan would force patients to make an impossible choice: live somewhere they don't want to, or suffer the consequences.

Here's a closer look at what can — and can't — happen under the Ontario government's Bill 7, the More Beds, Better Care Act.

 

[ninja007]

the great reset.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Western Gov't have betrayed their ideals, their citizens....see how fast fascism takes over and you can't seem to stop it....it's evil.

 

[Hellokitty]

Hospitals have limited bed space and aren't set up to be LTC facilities. While I understand the situational needs are different for many of the patients I do wonder how many of the families complaining just don't want to be inconvenienced by caring for their loved ones in their own homes.