Province eases emergency orders on hospital transfers, redeployment of healthcare workers
by News Staff
Last Updated Jun 3, 2021 at 11:34 am EDT
The Ford government has amended several emergency orders related to the transfer of hospital patients and the redeployment of health care workers.
After the third wave of COVID-19 was declared in Ontario, the province issued an emergency order authorizing the the transfer of patients to other hospitals without their consent in an effort to protect hospital resources from becoming overwhelmed by the rise in COVID patients. The province then expanded that order to allow for patients to be transferred to long-term care homes and retirement homes where necessary.
Published Thursday, June 3, 2021 11:18AM EDT The Ontario government has tweaked two emergency orders that were put in place to increase healthcare capacity during the height of the province’s third wave while simultaneously permitting hospitals to conduct more elective surgeries and procedures. In a memo sent to hospitals on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Health Helen Angus announced that an April 28 amendment to an emergency order that permitted hospitals to move chronically ill hospital patients into long-term care homes and retirement homes without their consent is “no longer necessary” due to “some of the improvements to health system conditions that have been observed in recent days.”
TORONTO The Ontario government has tweaked two emergency orders that were put in place to increase healthcare capacity during the height of the province’s third wave while simultaneously permitting hospitals to conduct more elective surgeries and procedures. In a memo sent to hospitals on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Health Helen Angus announced that an April 28 amendment to an emergency order that permitted hospitals to move chronically ill hospital patients into long-term care homes and retirement homes without their consent is “no longer necessary” due to “some of the improvements to health system conditions that have been observed in recent days.”
Published Saturday, May 29, 2021 2:25PM EDT The Ontario Government has extended certain orders under its Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act within the province. The extension will see the prohibition of recreational camping on public lands, a ban on recreational interprovincial border crossings, the continuation of redeployment of staff and patients between Ontario hospitals as necessary, and the enforcement of COVID-19 measures until at least June 16, 2021. The Office of the Solicitor General confirmed to CTV News Toronto that the provincial stay-at-home order would not be extended along with the orders. The following is a comprehensive list of orders that will now be extended to end on June 16, unless further extended. They were previously scheduled to expire on June 2: