Have you been or are you being coerced into a long-term care home or pressured to leave the hospital into community/home care? Are you willing to speak publicly about your experience?
Bill 7 (More Beds, Better Care Act) enables hospitals to assess patients waiting in hospital for long-term care or home/community care without their consent, share their patient information with long-term care homes and other services without their consent, fill in their application to a long-term care home or other care without their consent and admit them into a LTC home/other without their consent. It is an egregious violation of the human rights of the elderly
As of November 20th, patients who refuse to be moved to long-term care homes will be forced to pay $400 per day which is $144,000 per year. Some patients are already being threatened with or are being charged if they remain in the hospital rather than being placed into long-term care, or discharged to somewhere else like a retirement home, or sent home to wait for home/community care. This is pure ageism and ableism and it is being entrenched into our healthcare system.
We urgently request families and/or patients to contact us if:
- You have been coerced to leave hospital into long-term care/other against your will
- You have been threatened with charges or forced to pay charges if you do not consent to go to LTC/other against your will.
We are looking for people who are willing to speak about this publicly.
If you or your loved ones have experienced this, please email us at ohc@sympatico.ca with “BILL 7” in the subject line or Facebook message us or DM us on Twitter.