Seven people fined $400 a day for refusing LTC transfers: Ontario government

Seven people fined for refusing Ont LTC transfers

TORONTO - Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing.

By Allison Jones and Liam Casey The Canadian Press

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing. The emergency sign of a Toronto hospital is photographed on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alex Lupul AAL

TORONTO - Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing.

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.

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