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Ontario hospitals empowered to move patients to LTC without consent
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Ontario hospitals empowered to move patients to LTC without consent
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Ontario will give hospitals the authority to move patients into long-term care or retirement residences without their consent.
It’s the latest step by the Doug Ford government in response to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.
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Health Minister Christine Elliott said doctors will ensure that these are patients who can be properly cared for in another setting.
“This temporary emergency order will provide hospitals with the flexibility to transfer certain patients, those whose doctors have determined no longer require hospital care and could be better supported in a more appropriate setting, to a long-term care or retirement home,” Elliott said Wednesday.
Ontario hospitals empowered to move patients to LTC without consent
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Eduardo Teodoro, 75, recovers from COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at Centenary Hospital in Scarborough on April 8, 2021. As of Friday, 833 patients were in intensive care units due to COVID-19. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Ontario reported 4,094 new daily cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as the number of patients in intensive care units and on ventilators reached new highs.
As of Friday, there were 2,277 patients in hospital with the virus. A total of 833 people are in intensive care units. And 782 of those patients now require ventilators to breathe.
The province also reported 24 more deaths linked to the virus, bringing the official death toll to 7,887.