The More Beds, Better Care Act doesn't provide more beds, nor offer better care, but it does violate seniors' rights, they argue
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Bill 7 came into force in September and applies to some alternative-level-of-care patients in hospitals who are considered ready to be discharged but who have not left because they are waiting for an appropriate place to go.
It provides no more beds in the hospital system and deprives some patients of the care they receive, he said, so the name is "just a boastful declaration, a flashing neon light of a bold lie." "There are a lot of things they're not being told," said Jane Meadus, a lawyer with the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly. "They're being lied to, and they're being threatened."
The advocacy groups have collected affidavits from medical experts, some of whom expressed alarm that the bill is scapegoating elderly patients for problems in the health-care system.
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