{"id":29972,"date":"2024-10-15T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=29972"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:26:56","slug":"advisory-press-conference-court-challenge-to-be-heard-thursday-re-ford-governments-expansion-new-30-yr-license-for-southbridges-orchard-villa-for-profit-long-term-care-with-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/advisory-press-conference-court-challenge-to-be-heard-thursday-re-ford-governments-expansion-new-30-yr-license-for-southbridges-orchard-villa-for-profit-long-term-care-with-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">ADVISORY:<\/FONT> Press Conference: Court challenge to be heard Thursday re. 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The Coalition and the families are asking the court to quash the license.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There will be a press conference on Wednesday morning in advance of the hearing as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 10 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0 A recording will be available on the Ontario Health Coalition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Facebook page<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@OntarioHealthCoalition\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Natalie Mehra, Executive Director, Ontario Health Coalition<\/p>\n<p>Cathy Parkes, one of the families of Orchard Villa<\/p>\n<p>Steven Shrybman, lawyer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The documents and evidence filed with the court are available <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/roundup-ontario-health-coalitions-work-on-the-proposed-new-30-year-license-and-expansion-for-orchard-villa\/\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The advocates are asking the court to require the Ford government live up to their own long-term care legislation. Under the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/21f39\">Fixing Long-Term Care Act (2021)<\/a><\/em><\/span>, the government cannot issue licenses to long-term care home owners when their past conduct offers reasonable grounds to believe that the home will be operated in a manner that is prejudicial to the health, safety and welfare of its residents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred and six of Orchard Villa\u2019s 233 residents contracted COVID-19 and more than 70 died. At 30 deaths per 100 residents, Orchard Villa has one of the worst pandemic death records in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/gut-wrenching-military-report-sheds-light-on-grim-conditions-in-ontario-nursing-homes-1.4954710\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">military exposed<\/span><\/a> horrific conditions at Orchard Villa including residents\u2019 mattresses set on the floor so they could not get up, lack of hygiene, and unsafe infection control and medication practices. They found the home was dirty with cockroaches and flies present, a rotten food smell, residents left in soiled \u201cdiapers\u201d, residents left without hydration, improper feeding, a resident with a likely fractured hip left without proper care, multiple resident falls without assessment. There was poor access to supplies. Not only were residents on bare mattresses without linens, but also scarce wound care supplies, oxygen generators without oxygen, and broken suction units.<\/p>\n<p>The military\u2019s findings were not an aberration. Orchard Villa has a history of chronic non-compliance and continues to be cited for poor care in a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/publicreporting.ltchomes.net\/en-ca\/homeprofile.aspx?Home=2693&amp;tab=1\">litany of inspection reports<\/a><\/span> that describe many of the same issues exposed by the military.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ford government has gone to extraordinary lengths to force through the approval of Orchard Villa\u2019s expansion, issuing <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrillium.ca\/news\/health\/province-issues-mzo-to-expand-long-term-care-home-with-horrific-record-7148482\">an MZO forcing through the project<\/a><\/span>, overriding a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9669068\/orchard-villa-long-term-care-home-mzo\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">unanimous vote by Pickering City Council opposing the plan<\/span><\/a>. The zoning order allows for an <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-nursing-homes-mzo-1.6879362\">even more massive expansion down the road<\/a><\/span>&#8211; up to three 15-storey buildings and a maximum of 832 long-term care beds and 670 units in a retirement home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the military report exposed horrific conditions in the long-term care homes to which they had been deployed including Orchard Villa, the Ford government <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CShVcC_5hqM\">promised unequivocally that they would bring in stronger accountability and fundamental change<\/a><\/span>, stating that \u201ceverything is on the table\u201d including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/doug-ford-promised-accountability-after-last-year-s-horrors-in-long-term-care-critics-say\/article_d57ea628-7c36-57e2-a59f-830566dff716.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">potential criminal charges<\/span><\/a>, justice for the families, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oDSuqdy_Q1c\">license revocations<\/a><\/span>, fines and more. Despite this, the Ford government is issuing new 30-year licenses and expansions for thousands of long-term care beds to the same for-profit long-term care chain corporations responsible for the lion\u2019s share of deaths in the pandemic and for longstanding records of terrible care and living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Far from being held accountable, Southbridge &#8211; one of the for-profit chains <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nursing-homes-covid-19-death-rates-ontario-1.5846080\">with one of the very worst records<\/a><\/span> in the pandemic, as well as before and after \u2013 is among the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Final-Ford-government-LTC-bed-allocations-report.pdf\">prime beneficiaries of the Ford government\u2019s new licenses<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Orchard-Villa-court-hearing-media-advisory-web-vrsn.pdf\">Click here for printable version of advisory<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(October 15, 2024) Toronto \u2013 On Thursday, a panel of judges at the Ontario Divisional court will hear a court challenge brought by the daughter of a deceased resident and the Ontario Health Coalition seeking a judicial review of the Ford government\u2019s decision to grant an 88-bed expansion and new 30-year license for the 233-bed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-long-term-care-chronic-care","category-whats-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ADVISORY: Press Conference: Court challenge to be heard Thursday re. 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