Resident Quality Inspections, all but stopped in 2018, are crucial for protecting residents, advocates warnFord government to move hospital patients to long-term care, but proactive inspections still on holdThe Ford government’s More Beds, More Care Act, is set to move designated hospital patients to long-term care homes, and charge those who refuse , as early as September 21. The Ford government’s new long-term care bill, which will automatically transfer some “alternate level of care” hospital patients to long-term care homes, in some cases notorious private ones, has proven enormously controversial. “It is really unheard of that we would see outbreaks to this extent in long-term care homes in the middle of summer, where at one point 30% of long-term care homes in outbreak across the province,” Palliative care physician Dr. Amit Arya said. NEW: Rod Phillips announces Ontario will more than double the number of inspectors in long-term care by end of 2022. Asked if there were plans to expedite the RQI process, Ontario’s Ministry of Long-term care did not respond.

Source: CBC News September 16, 2022 21:00 UTC