Ontario proposes fix to issue of dwindling long-term care cultural admissions
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Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province's cultural homes.
Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province’s cultural homes.
The issue was created by the Progressive Conservative government’s own 2022 law known as Bill 7, which has been criticized for allowing people to be placed in a long term-care home not of their choosing.
It gives admission priority to people in hospital, as a way to free up beds for acute care once people can be discharged. Thousands of people across the province are waiting in hospital beds at any given time for a spot to open up in long-term care.
But advocates and operators in the sector say the new admission rules have proven to be a bit too blunt of an instrument when it comes to the several dozen cultural long-term care homes across the province, which cater to seniors from Korean, Jewish and francophone communities, for example.
Seniors are being admitted to cultural homes when they are not part of that culture.
For example, some are being moved into an Italian home without speaking that language, operators say, while people who are looking for a placement in that Italian home end up elsewhere.
If a spot opens in a Ukrainian home, it goes to the person at the top of the list, even if the person in the No. 2 spot wants a Ukrainian placement.
The previous long-term care minister, Stan Cho, said in the spring he was actively working on a solution, and now the current minister has posted a proposed regulatory amendment that would enable placement co-ordinators to prioritize cultural admissions within the “crisis” category, which largely consists of people waiting in hospital.
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