Seven people fined $400 a day for refusing LTC transfers: Ontario government...
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From CHCH in Hamilton:
A law enacted in 2022 requires hospitals to levy fines of $400 a day on patients who can be discharged but need long-term care and are refusing to go to a home selected for them by a placement co-ordinator.
The government has long said it was not aware of anyone being fined, with Long-Term Care Minister Stan Cho saying as much as recently as two weeks ago.
Hannah Jensen, a spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones, now says that seven people have been fined but the ministry was not aware of those cases.
If a fine is issued, a care co-ordinator at a hospital is required to report it to Home and Community Care Support Services, which is then required to report that information to Ontario Health, Jensen wrote in a statement.
“Ontario Health and Ontario Health Regional Officer should have been reporting these instances of charges to the Ministry of Health as well as the Ministry of Long-Term Care,” she wrote. “This last step was not being completed.”
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