NEW: No one has been fined in Ontario so far under the government's new long-term care law.
But families and advocates argue the threat posed by the law is pushing patients into nursing homes they wouldn't otherwise choose.
"The hospital community is very uncomfortable with this kind of adversarial position," said Anthony Dale, CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association. The province says 7,600 alternate-level-of-care patients have moved into nursing homes since the law took effect. Her retirement home wouldn't take her back and moving in with her daughter wasn't possible because there wouldn't be enough help from personal support workers, her family said.
Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said he recognizes the stress the legislation has created for families."Once you're in the system, it's a good system, but getting into the different systems is like a royal pain." "I never thought that there'd be massive amounts of fines going on," he said. "But it has to be there as a part of the system."
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