TORONTO — Ontario hospital patients awaiting spots in long\u002Dterm care can be moved to nursing homes not of their choosing up to 150 kilometres away, with…
Starting next week, patients in southern Ontario can be moved up to 70 kilometres away, while those in northern Ontario may be moved up to 150 kilometres away, Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said in a statement Wednesday.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We want to be clear about what this policy does: it frees up hospital beds so that people waiting for surgeries can get them sooner; it eases pressures on crowded emergency departments by admitting patients sooner,” Jones and Calandra said.Article content The province introduced legislation last month that would allow hospitals to send so-called alternate level of care patients to a long-term care home not of their choosing on a temporary basis.
The bill, which was pushed through the legislature without public hearings, has sparked outrage from seniors and advocates.
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