{"id":16557,"date":"2021-03-23T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=16557"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:40:43","slug":"groups-demand-inquiry-into-seniors-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/groups-demand-inquiry-into-seniors-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Demand Inquiry Into Seniors\u2019 Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(March 22, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>By: Colin Redston, Country 105<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1938\/files\/2021\/03\/yo01Z-9HQAw-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Groups Demand Inquiry Into Seniors\u2019 Care\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@hush52?utm_source=SoCast&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Hush Naidoo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=SoCast&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare advocates want an investigation of alleged discrimination against elderly patients in hospitals and long-term care.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.country1053.ca\/2021\/03\/22\/groups-demand-inquiry-into-seniors-care\/\">Ontario Health Coalition<\/a>, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, and lawyers from Goldblatt Partners laid out their complaints in a virtual news conference.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re asking the Ontario Human Rights Commission to begin an inquiry into a lack of long-term care beds and claims that hospitals discharge seniors too early to free up beds.<\/p>\n<p>Coalition Director Natalie Mehra claims it\u2019s because of a history of under-funding from the province.<\/p>\n<p>She argues that helped lead to deadly COVID-19 outbreaks like the one at Southbridge Roseview in Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longstanding, terrible inadequacy in long-term care was instrumental in these deaths, so too was the policy of denying access to hospital care for the elderly,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Mehra also claims that in the early months of the pandemic, hospitals freed up beds for COVID-19 patients by discharging over 2,200 patients early, many of whom were elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, instead of staffing up long-term care homes, the long-term care industry and provincial government actually pursued deregulation of the only staffing requirements that long-term care homes have, which were woefully inadequate to start with,\u201d Mehra says.<\/p>\n<p>She adds this has been going on for much longer than the pandemic, but that COVID-19 exposed many inequalities in the healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.country1053.ca\/2021\/03\/22\/groups-demand-inquiry-into-seniors-care\/\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 22, 2021) By: Colin Redston, Country 105 Hush Naidoo\u00a0\/\u00a0Unsplash Healthcare advocates want an investigation of alleged discrimination against elderly patients in hospitals and long-term care. 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