The woman, 62-year-old Deana Henry, reluctantly agreed to move into the room at the privately operated Extendicare West End Villa last week although it was not among her choices. She had been previously living there until her room was taken over by The Ottawa Hospital which has assumed management of two floors. Henry was increasingly unhappy with care at the home and had a list of homes she wanted to move to but was told to accept the room offered at West End Villa.
Under the bill, patients waiting for long-term care who are in hospital beds can be sent to a long-term care home that is not of their choosing. The move is an effort to free up desperately needed space in hospitals, say government officials, and get patients into more suitable care. Critics say the homes they will be moved to are the ones that people don’t want to go to because they have poor records.
But Henry’s daughter and Sinclair say she was pressured to accept the room at West End Villa by an employee of the local health agency that places residents in long-term care homes with the threat of being charged $1,800 a day once Bill 7 was passed.Article content Why is the premier insisting that no one will be coerced against their will when it’s already happening to patients like Deana?” Pasma asked. “Deana may be bed-bound, but she has a right to choose where to live, the same right that we all have.”This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Henry had been living at West End Villa on the fourth floor and was increasingly unhappy with the level of care she was receiving there.
And so it begins, under our all-star fordnation. Humans are just disposable for these CONs.