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Ontario’s controversial nursing home transfer law is being challenged in court. Here’s what you need to know
Posted: September 23, 2024
(September 22, 2024) By: Maria Iqbal, Toronto Star (behind a paywall)
–> The first part of the article is as follows:
Advocacy groups argue that law, meant to help deal with a shortage of acute care beds, violates the Charter rights of hospital patients.
The Ford government’s More Beds, Better Care Act was introduced in 2022 as a way to deal with a shortage of acute care beds in hospitals.
A controversial Ontario law that can force hospital patients to choose between moving into a long-term-care home they didn’t pick or face fines will be challenged in court this week.
Beginning on Monday, lawyers for the Ontario Health Coalition and Advocacy Centre for the Elderly will argue against the Ford government’s More Beds, Better Care Act, introduced in 2022 as a way to deal with a shortage of acute care beds in hospitals.
