Two Ontario nursing homes have been slapped with penalties for failing to provide air conditioning in resident rooms.
The Doug Ford government has made AC mandatory in long-term care facilities, and these fines are the first of their kind levied against nursing homes in the province’s history.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
The two homes have been ordered to each pay a $1,100 administrative penalty and have until Sept. 16 to come into compliance. Currently, 554 nursing homes are resident rooms with full AC and 24 more should be in compliance by Sept. 22, the government source says.
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