Two groups looking to challenge a bill that charges hospital patients who refuse to be moved into a long-term care home that has been chosen for them.
Health care advocates in Ontario plan to launch a constitutional challenge to a law that allows some elderly hospital patients to be discharged to a nursing home they didn't choose.
The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly are leading the charge.
The legislation, which requires hospitals to charge $400 a day to discharged patients who refuse to go to a long-term care home that has been chosen for them, was passed in August.
While the bill took effect in September, the requirement to charge patients came into effect today.
The province says the bill is meant to ease pressures on hospitals overwhelmed by emergency visits and surgical backlogs.
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