Tag: long-term-care
Ontario family refuses to pay massive hospital bill as part of LTC law
A Southwestern Ontario woman has received an $8,400 bill from a hospital in Windsor after she refused to put her mother in a nursing home she hated and she says she has no intention of paying it.
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Seniors in hospital waiting for a preferred nursing home bed can be asked to move to an alternative facility.
Area hospital patient fined $5K for refusing to move to care home
An elderly Chatham man was fined $5,200 for spending 13 days in hospital after he refused to move to a long-term care home he didn’t choose, his upset family says.
The Bells of Christmas are returning to the Bayshore Nov. 11
The Bells of Christmas will ring anew at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre this holiday season. The popular holiday gift-giving campaign ensures lonely seniors at local long-term-care homes will open a present on Christmas morning. Volunteers will hang 150 Bells of Christmas on a tree at the lobby of the Bayshore on Nov. 11 […]
Long-term care home eyed at former McCormick’s site
A nursing home giant is looking for a green light by London city hall to build a 192-bed care home on the site of a former candy factory.
New tech program streamlines transfer of patients from LHSC to care homes
Southwestern Ontario’s largest hospital is ratcheting up real-time health information sharing with long-term care homes in the region, a move that will speed up and streamline patient discharges from in-demand beds.
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‘Avoidable tragedy’: Fire deaths expose gaps in care system, critics say
The recent fire deaths of two Londoners awaiting spots in long-term care homes were an “avoidable tragedy,” but only a fraction of the fatal fallout from an overburdened system, critics say.
Woman, 75, killed in mobile home fire was awaiting long-term care bed: Son
A stroke survivor killed in a mobile home fire had spent two years waiting to get a long-term care bed, her son says – the second Londoner in 10 days to die in a blaze while hoping to move into such a facility.
Grey County councillors inspect new Rockwood Terrace project plans
West Grey Mayor Paul McQueen questioned consultants designing the new Rockwood Terrace long-term care/assisted living home in conjunction with county staff about how pandemic-resistant will it be. One of the most difficult things during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic was when home residents couldn’t visit with their families, he said. Would the new home […]