Media advisory -- media availability & court hearing details for charter challenge to bill 7 – the ford government's legislation that forces elderly patients into long-term care homes against their will

Toronto, sept. 23, 2024 (globe newswire) -- on tuesday september 24 at 9:10 am, the ontario health coalition will hold a media availability regarding the charter challenge to bill 7 being heard in court. bill 7, the more beds, better care act (2002), passed by the ford government, gives new powers to hospitals and placement coordinators to override the right of elderly patients to informed consent in order to force them out of hospital into long-term care homes that they do not want to live in. the law, passed in the summer of 2022 and put into effect that autumn, enables hospitals and placement coordinators to share patient information with an array of long-term care corporations and others without their consent. it enables them to apply for placement without the patient's consent and to admit them into a long-term care home without their consent. if the patient refuses to go, the hospital is required to charge them $400 a day as a means of coercion. the law is used to force patients into long-term care homes that they do not want to go to because they are substandard, cannot provide appropriate care, are unsafe and are far away from loved ones. under this law, patients in southern ontario can be moved up to 70 km away and in the north up to 150 km away, or further if no beds are available. for most, this is the last move of their lives and they will pass away in that long-term care home that has been forced upon them.
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