Ontario tells hospitals they must pay for emergency pandemic costs associated with their seniors’ homes

A man gestures at healthcare workers at the Altamont Care Community on Mother's Day, May 10, 2020 in Toronto.Seniors’ residences in Ontario operated by hospitals are on the hook for all expenses associated with mandatory management orders imposed by the province, but not for assistance from the Canadian military.

The federal government does not plan to bill the province or the homes for its assistance. “On requests for assistance, there is no cost recovery,” Mary-Liz Power, press secretary to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, said in an e-mail to The Globe. All but one of the nine homes subject to the management orders are older facilities, where up to four residents share a room and one bathroom. They are classified as"C" homes, meaning they meet the Ministry of Long-Term Care’s 1972 design standards.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

Depends on the hospital, can't generalize across Ontario. But overall yes they are under capacity. There's facts establishing that. & long-term care always prioritized admissions from community, and as long as they are not on outbreak they are taking new residents from community

Would have been less costly in a number of ways if they had hospitalized the sick elderly in the first place? Perhaps?

Ontario Hospitals are EMPTY Ontario Hospitals have been EMPTY for 3 months Ontario Hospitals have averaged a 99.2 percent decline in patient stays and surgeries.

and that's the other shoe dropped

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