No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing, the province and its hospitals say.
No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move to a long-term care home.
Despite the province and hospitals saying no fines were issued, families and advocates argue the threat posed by the law is pushing patients into nursing homes they wouldn’t otherwise choose