{"id":21060,"date":"2022-11-22T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=21060"},"modified":"2022-12-16T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T04:22:14","slug":"2400-elderly-patients-had-rights-violated-in-moves-from-ontario-hospitals-critics-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/2400-elderly-patients-had-rights-violated-in-moves-from-ontario-hospitals-critics-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"2,400 elderly patients had rights violated in moves from Ontario hospitals, critics charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(November 21, 2022)<\/p>\n<p>By: <span class=\"article__author-name\">Rob Ferguson, The Hamilton Spectator<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thestar.com\/V7oNYFQkn9iD0FSIChk_SU7NqWI=\/1200x798\/smart\/filters:cb(1669155276236):format(webp)\/https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/11\/21\/2400-elderly-patients-had-rights-violated-in-moves-from-ontario-hospitals-critics-charge\/paul_calandra.jpg\" alt=\"Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra speaks with media at Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto on Sept. 14, 2022.\" width=\"427\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra speaks with media at Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto on Sept. 14, 2022.<span class=\"caption-credit\">\u00a0\u00a0CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV\u00a0\/\u00a0THE CANADIAN PRESS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">More than 2,400 elderly patients who no longer needed hospital care have been moved to nursing homes this fall, helping to clear beds for the cold weather surge of respiratory viruses, Ontario\u2019s Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">The figure was released Monday as critics took fresh aim at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"text-block__link\" 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> a controversial law passed in September that includes fees of $400 a day for anyone refusing to leave hospital once cleared for discharge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cIf a senior refuses to go to one of these homes, the premier (Doug Ford) has threatened to financially ruin them,\u201d New Democrat MPP and long-term care critic Wayne Gates (Niagara) said as his party, the Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly pressed the government to scrap the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">They said it violates the charter rights of the elderly with \u201ccoercive\u201d charges and breaches provisions against age discrimination, setting the stage for a charter challenge of the legislation by the coalition and the advocacy centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cThe burden of this policy \u2026 is now being borne by the frail elderly. That is not acceptable,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/ts\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/11\/21\/2400-elderly-patients-had-rights-violated-in-moves-from-ontario-hospitals-critics-charge.html\">Natalie Mehra<\/a>, executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/ts\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/11\/21\/2400-elderly-patients-had-rights-violated-in-moves-from-ontario-hospitals-critics-charge.html\">Ontario Health Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_2886_onscreen\" class=\"fsk_splitbox_2886_onscreen  sb-opened\">\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">While hospitals have had the power to levy the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"text-block__link\" 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\">$400 charge<\/a><\/span> since Sunday, \u201cto the best of my knowledge, nobody\u2019s been fined,\u201d Calandra told reporters later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cBill 7 has allowed us to get people into (nursing) homes quicker,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019ve very pleased with the progress that we\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"contentMiddleBreakPoint\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">Officially called the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"text-block__link\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/09\/20\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ontarios-controversial-new-nursing-home-law.html\">\u201cMore Beds, Better Care Act,\u201d<\/a> <\/span>it allows hospitals to transfer elderly patients to nursing homes not of their choosing \u2014 providing they have been approved for discharge and consent to the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">But the threat of a $400 daily fee for staying in hospital is a \u201cbludgeon \u2026 to coerce their consent,\u201d said Ben Piper, a lawyer for Goldblatt Partners LLP, a law firm preparing a charter challenge of Bill 7 on behalf of the Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly. It\u2019s expected to be filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">Both groups warn that elderly couples could be separated by the legislation under provisions that allow hospital patients to be moved to nursing homes as far as 70 km away in southern Ontario and 150 km in the north \u2014 or further if no long-term care beds are free within that range. That could make it difficult or impossible for spouses and families to visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">As well, frail elderly patients could be moved into nursing homes in the midst of COVID-19 outbreaks or into homes that had high levels of illness and death during the pandemic, Mehra said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cThere\u2019s no level on which this is right,\u201d she told a news conference, noting the average length of life for someone moving into a nursing home is 18 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">The bill, which was tabled in August and passed within a couple of weeks without being sent to a legislative committee of MPPs for further study, was aimed at \u201calternative level of care\u201d patients in hospital \u2014 those no longer in need of acute care but on waiting lists for nursing home or rehabilitation beds or home care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">Also called \u201cbed blockers\u201d in health industry jargon, the alternate level of care patients have long been a problem in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">The government said the number of alternative level of care patients is now down by almost 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/ts\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/11\/21\/2400-elderly-patients-had-rights-violated-in-moves-from-ontario-hospitals-critics-charge.html\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(November 21, 2022) By: Rob Ferguson, The Hamilton Spectator Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra speaks with media at Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto on Sept. 14, 2022.\u00a0\u00a0CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV\u00a0\/\u00a0THE CANADIAN PRESS More than 2,400 elderly patients who no longer needed hospital care have been moved to nursing homes this fall, helping to clear beds for the 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