Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province's cultural homes.
The issue was created by the Progressive Conservative government's own 2022 law known as Bill 7, which has been criticized for allowing people to be placed in a long term-care home not of their choosing.
It gives admission priority to people in hospital, as a way to free up beds for acute care once people can be discharged. Thousands of people across the province are waiting in hospital beds at any given time for a spot to open up in long-term care.