The law, which went into effect in September, can move discharged patients into nursing homes they didn't consent to
No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing, the province and its hospitals say.
Hospitals say they've been reticent to employ the law, but placement co-ordinators incorporate discussion of it in their chats with patients. There were 2,135 alternate-level-of-care patients in hospitals awaiting spots in long-term care in September, the association said. There are now 1,830 such patients in hospital, government data shows.
Janet Levergood was cleared to leave hospital as long as she had enough care, but the level of care required was significant because of her needs and propensity to fall. "I felt like I had no options," Sheri Levergood said. "I actually sunk into really bad depression and I was having panic attacks.""I felt very blessed that the doors opened for us," Sheri Levergood said. "If a spot didn't open up, we would have just had to go to one of those homes that we were dead set against."
Hospitals were allowed to start issuing the $400-a-day fines in November, but Calandra said he's not surprised none have been laid so far to his knowledge.
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