Ontario’s Auditor General says at least 99 hospital patients were placed in long term care homes without their consent.
The annual report from the office this week says the government has not been transparent in implementing a law which allows hospital placement coordinators to transfer those patients and could charge them $400 a day if they refuse.
The law which took effect in September last year is aimed to alternate level of care patients who can be discharged from hospital but need a long term care bed but don’t have one yet.
