ontario regulation 368/08

made under the

nursing homes act

Made: September 24, 2008
Filed: October 24, 2008
Published on e-Laws: October 27, 2008
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: November 8, 2008


Amending Reg. 832 of R.R.O. 1990

(General)

1. Section 147 of Regulation 832 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 is amended by adding the following subsections:

(2) Despite sections 143 to 145, if a placement co-ordinator becomes aware of the opportunity to exchange a resident of one long-term care home who seeks admission to a second long-term care home and a resident of the second long-term care home who seeks admission to the first, and at least one of those homes is a home to which this Regulation applies, each resident shall be placed in the exchange category of the appropriate waiting list.

(3) In subsection (2),

“long-term care home” means,

(a) a nursing home;

(b) an approved charitable home for the aged under the Charitable Institutions Act; or

(c) a home under the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act.

2. Section 154 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following subsection:

(3) If the placement co-ordinator becomes aware that a person on the waiting list should be placed in the exchange category referred to in subsection 147 (2), the placement co-ordinator shall place the person in the exchange category, if that is the highest ranked waiting list category that applies to the person in accordance with Table 4.

3. (1) Table 5 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following item:

 


2.1


Exchange (but only persons in the exchange category by virtue of subsection 147 (2))


(a) Persons who are seeking admission to the nursing home in which their spouse or partner is a long-stay resident and who meet the eligibility criteria set out in subsection 130 (1) shall rank ahead of all other persons in the exchange category by virtue of subsection 147 (2).




 


 


(b) As among themselves, persons in the exchange category by virtue of subsection 147 (2) who are seeking admission to the nursing home in which their spouse or partner is a long-stay resident and who meet the eligibility criteria set out in subsection 130 (1) shall be ranked according to the time at which they applied for authorization of their admission to the nursing home.




 


 


(c) Persons who are not seeking admission to the nursing home in which their spouse or partner is a long-stay resident and who meet the eligibility criteria set out in subsection 130 (1) but who are of the religion, ethnic origin or linguistic origin primarily served by the nursing home shall rank ahead of all other persons in the exchange category by virtue of subsection 147 (2).




 


 


(d) As among themselves, persons in the exchange category by virtue of subsection 147 (2) who are of the religion, ethnic origin or linguistic origin primarily served by the nursing home shall be ranked according to the time at which they applied for authorization of their admission to the nursing home.




 


 


(e) As among themselves, persons who are in the exchange category by virtue of subsection 147 (2) who are not seeking admission to the nursing home in which their spouse or partner is a long-stay resident and who meet the eligibility criteria set out in subsection 130 (1) and who are not of the religion, ethnic origin or linguistic origin primarily served by the nursing home shall be ranked according to the time at which they applied for authorization of their admission to the nursing home.




(2) Column 1 of item 4 of Table 5 of the Regulation is amended by striking out “1, 2, 3, 3.1” and substituting “1, 2, 2.1, 3, 3.1”.

4. This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.