{"id":19562,"date":"2022-09-16T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T02:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=19562"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:05:45","slug":"it-is-grotesque-to-do-this-critics-slam-ford-governments-plan-for-long-distance-placements-in-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/it-is-grotesque-to-do-this-critics-slam-ford-governments-plan-for-long-distance-placements-in-nursing-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It is grotesque to do this\u2019: Critics slam Ford government\u2019s plan for long-distance placements in nursing homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(September 15, 2022)<\/p>\n<p>By: Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thestar.com\/qVk2WXg1IEw_hgmulALgoO9W9ec=\/1200x798\/smart\/filters:cb(1663421552503):format(webp)\/https:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/content\/dam\/thestar\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/09\/15\/it-is-grotesque-to-do-this-critics-slam-ford-governments-plan-for-long-distance-placements-in-nursing-homes\/sylvia_jones.jpg\" alt=\"Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones speaks with media at Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto, on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.\" width=\"390\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sue\u2019s elderly mom has complex medical issues and depression, and is waiting for a long-term-care bed after being hospitalized in June.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s under no illusions she\u2019ll ever get into the nursing home she picked four years ago \u2014 despite what the Ontario government has promised under <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/09\/14\/ford-government-will-charge-400-a-day-for-long-term-care-patients-who-wont-leave-hospital.html\">Bill 7.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, beds on her selected list are not available,\u201d said Sue, who asked her last name be kept private over fear of repercussions for speaking out on the new legislation aimed at freeing up hospital beds for an expected surge of flu and COVID-19 this fall and winter.<\/p>\n<p>Sue told the Star her story Thursday, a day after Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government revealed the elderly can be moved to nursing homes not of their choosing as far away as 70 kilometres in southern Ontario and 150 kilometres in the north starting Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a patient\u2019s preferred home is not available, they will continue to wait for a bed while receiving care in a more suitable place, such as another long-term-care home,\u201d Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>That paints a rosy but misleading picture given hundreds of elderly patients are waiting in hospitals for scarce nursing home beds \u2014 for which 39,000 people in Ontario are on waiting lists that average 171 days, said lawyer Jane Meadus of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preference is always going to be given to hospital patients\u201d under Bill 7, Meadus warned at a news conference with the Ontario Health Coalition. \u201cOnce you get into this home that you\u2019re forced into, you are not likely to be able to ever move into a home that you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sue puts it more bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not going to live long enough,\u201d she said of people like her mother, who was moved last month from hospital to a Toronto-area reactivation centre to await a bed in long-term care. The centres are mostly in former hospitals that have been repurposed to provide interim beds, freeing up space in overcrowded hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>In an \u201cappalling\u201d development, hospital patients sent long distances to a nursing home not on their preferred list are \u201cresponsible for arranging and paying for their own<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>transportation\u201d according to new provincial guidelines, said Meadus, noting it could cost them hundreds of dollars for a medical transfer service.<\/p>\n<p>The government maintains the system steering patients into nursing homes must be changed because some hospitals have between 10 and 30 per cent of their beds devoted to so-called alternate level of care patients \u2014 people who no longer require acute care but are waiting for beds in nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, home care or community care.<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Calandra say that is resulting in backlogs for beds that cause long waits in emergency rooms, lengthen wait lists for surgeries and other treatments already delayed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Under <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/08\/31\/ford-government-gives-hospitals-the-power-to-send-elderly-patients-to-nursing-homes.html\">Bill 7<\/a><\/span>, anyone of any age refusing to leave hospital after being cleared for discharge to their homes or available care elsewhere will be billed $400 daily as an incentive to go.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said she hopes 400 hospital beds can be freed up in the coming weeks as arrangements are worked out by hospitals with patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are conversations that are going to go one family at a time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Two fears are on Sue\u2019s mind as the \u201cMore Beds, Better Care Act\u201d comes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>They are that her mother will be moved as far away as Hamilton or east of Oshawa, with all of the heavy traffic that could involve, and that she could be moved to one of the homes they rejected for her late husband that were \u201csubstandard before COVID and had high rates of illness with COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no interest in seeing our mother sent there,\u201d Sue said.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition, which is fighting Bill 7, told a news conference she has had calls from families who are \u201cterrified\u201d their elders will be moved far away, making it more difficult to visit them and leaving them isolated in their final months and years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are human beings,\u201d she added. \u201cIt is grotesque to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Long-Term Care Association, representing a majority 627 nursing homes in the province, has <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/08\/25\/ford-defends-move-to-free-up-hospital-beds-by-sending-more-elderly-patients-into-long-term-care.html\">repeatedly warned<\/a> <\/span>many facilities remain short-staffed in the wake of the pandemic, meaning they need more nurses and personal support workers to handle an influx of hospital patients.<\/p>\n<p>Putting a priority on hospital patients for nursing home admission will result in elderly people in \u201ccrisis situations\u201d in their own homes or living with relatives going to hospitals, predicted Interim NDP Leader Peter Tabuns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are really not solving the problem,\u201d Tabuns said. Sue agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re creating an incentive for people to go into hospital because that\u2019s the only way to get into long-term care,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>There were 2,270 vacant beds out of 79,450 across the province in a snapshot of the long-term care system taken Aug. 24. The average length of stay in a long-term-care home is 18 months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ts\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/09\/15\/it-is-grotesque-to-do-this-critics-slam-ford-governments-plan-for-long-distance-placements-in-nursing-homes.html\">Link to original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(September 15, 2022) By: Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star Sue\u2019s elderly mom has complex medical issues and depression, and is waiting for a long-term-care bed after being hospitalized in June. 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