Ontario’s Bill 7 allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or charge them $400 per day if they refuse.
They are part of a pilot project that Allison Bodnar, CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia, says has “transformed the way primary care is delivered in Nova Scotia.”
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences will now be using pharmacogenetic testing for patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.
From sending patients reminder phone calls to booking follow-up appointments, WaiveTheWait says it can automate a wide variety of simple administrative functions.
The nurse-ratio numbers come as the government announced earlier this week about 248,000 people have connected with a family doctor or nurse practitioner through the province’s Health Connect online registry.
The bill is the result of weeks of political negotiations with the New Democrats, who early this year threatened to pull out of their supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals unless they could agree on the wording.
