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(March 18, 2021)<\/p>\n

By: Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Sun (Print Edition)<\/p>\n

Critics are calling for a human rights inquiry, saying the transfer of elderly patients into retirement homes and converted hotels to free up hospital beds has become a worrying trend in Ontario.<\/p>\n

Among facilities cited during a press conference by the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, the Ontario Health Coalition and CUPE Wednesday was Ottawa’s recently opened transitional care unit at Greystone Village Retirement Home.<\/p>\n

The facility in Old Ottawa East was about to open when the pandemic hit. Instead, it was transformed into a transitional care unit, overseen by Bruy\u00e8re hospital and managed by a private company – Integrated Care Solutions, which is owned by Bayshore Health-Care.<\/p>\n

Greystone has beds for 120 so-called alternate level of care patients.<\/p>\n

When it opened last fall, Bruy\u00e8re CEO Guy Chartrand said the kind of transitional care being offered in the facility is badly needed in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

“These 120 beds will help alleviate some of the pressure on the health-care system and on our acute-care partners, while helping people access the care they need at a crucial time in their journey,” Chartrand said.<\/p>\n

But the groups say it and other programs that target mainly the elderly offer a lower quality of privatized care.<\/p>\n

They are now calling for an inquiry into elder discrimination in health care.<\/p>\n

Jane Meadus, a lawyer with the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, said such facilities fall into a kind of legal limbo because they aren’t regulated and have no standards of care.<\/p>\n

“COVID-19 has shone a harsh light into treatment of the elderly in health care,” Meadus said. “This is not a new issue and it is not specific to COVID.”<\/p>\n

In Ottawa, more than 30,000 people are waiting for long-term-care homes, some for as long as five years.<\/p>\n

“Every bed is full in longterm-care homes. Every bed is full in hospitals. As a consequence, the elderly are pushed around to places that are not safe and do not provide adequate care,” said Natalie Mehra<\/a>, who heads the Ontario Health Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Hurley, who heads the Ontario Association of Hospital Unions, said a high proportion of long-term-care residents who died from COVID did so without being sent to hospital.<\/p>\n

“Most died without having any access to palliative care, respiratory therapists, respirologists, any advantages of modern medicine,” he said.<\/p>\n

“How could that happen?”<\/p>\n

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