32 (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Minister may make such regulations with respect to hospitals as are considered necessary for, (a)  their creation, establishment, construction, alteration, equipment, safety, maintenance and repairs; (b)  their classifications, grades and standards; (c)  their inspection, control, government, management, conduct, operation and use; Note: On a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, subsection 32 (1) of the Act is amended by adding the following clauses: (See: 2017, c. 11, Sched. 3, s. 14) (c.1)  prescribing conditions, restrictions and requirements for the purposes of subsection 22 (2); (c.2)  providing for provisions of this Act or the regulations that do not apply with respect to community laboratory services provided by a hospital designated under subsection 22 (1); (d)  prescribing the matters upon which by-laws are to be passed by hospitals and providing for filing of by-laws with the Ministry; (e)  prescribing the powers and duties of inspectors, and respecting any matters that relate to a review or a report under section 18; (f)  providing that certain persons shall be by virtue of their office members of the board in addition to the members of the board appointed or elected in accordance with the authority whereby the hospital is established; (g)  their administrators, staffs, officers, servants and employees and the powers and duties thereof; (h)  providing for the certification of chronically ill persons and the method of referring such persons to hospitals for chronically ill persons; (i)  providing for the method of referring convalescent persons to hospitals for convalescent persons; (j)  the admission, treatment, care, conduct, control and discharge of patients or any class of patients; (k)  prescribing the organization of the medical staff of a hospital including the composition and duties of admission and discharge committees and other committees of the medical staff; (l)  the classification of patients and the lengths of stay of and the rates and charges for patients; (m)  requiring a written agreement between each Group A hospital and the university with which the hospital is affiliated for the purpose of providing instruction in the hospital to medical and dental students of the university, and prescribing provisions that shall be included in any such agreement; (n)  prescribing the facilities that hospitals shall provide for dental students, student dietitians, medical students and interns, students of nursing, student laboratory technicians, student physiotherapists, student occupational therapists, student x-ray technicians and student social workers; (o)  the records, books, accounting systems, audits, reports and returns to be made and kept by hospitals; (p)  the reports and returns to be submitted to the Ministry by hospitals and the accounting principles and rules that are to govern any financial reports and returns; (q)  prescribing the requirements to be satisfied for obtaining a valid consent for any surgical operation, diagnostic procedure or medical treatment, the method of obtaining such consent, the conditions under which such consent may be dispensed with and specifying the age or ages at which and under what conditions a patient may give a valid consent for a surgical operation, diagnostic procedure or medical treatment to be performed on the patient; (r)  prescribing the rates for out-patient services, including emergency cases; (s)  governing the manner of determining the amounts of grants, loans and financial assistance that may be made to hospitals under section 5 or the amounts themselves or both, prescribing the time, manner, terms and conditions of payment relating to them and respecting the suspension, withholding, reduction, termination and the making of deductions from grants, loans, financial assistance and payments relating to them; (t)  Repealed:  2006, c. 4, s. 52 (9). (u)  prescribing such persons or entities to whom records of personal health information may be transferred under subsection 14 (2); (v)  where all or one or more of the provisions in subsections 37 (3) to (7) or sections 38 to 43 do not apply, prescribing provisions in substitution for them or in addition to them including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i)  procedures to be followed by a hospital or a board in connection with applications for appointment or reappointment, applications for a change in hospital privileges, revoking appointments or cancelling or substantially altering privileges, (ii)  conditions under which a physician may require a hearing by the board and provisions relating to such a hearing, (iii)  conditions under which a physician may require a hearing by the Hospital Appeal Board and provisions relating to such a hearing, (iv)  conditions under which a party to proceedings before a board or the Hospital Appeal Board may appeal to the Divisional Court and provisions relating to such an appeal; (v.1)  prescribing persons for the purposes of the definition of a “physician” in section 1; (w)  defining “services”, “hospital foundation” and “hospital subsidiary”; (x)  respecting the disposition of assets acquired or used for the purposes of a hospital; (y)  respecting the purchase of assets to be used for the purposes of a hospital; (z)  respecting the dissolution of corporations that own or operate or owned or operated hospitals; (z.1)  authorizing any person, group of persons or other body to issue directions under subsection 9 (10) in the place of the Minister and respecting any conditions to which that authority may be subject; (z.2)  providing that hospitals must prepare and submit physician human resource plans to the Ministry for approval; (z.3)  prescribing the form and content of physician human resource plans; (z.4)  providing that hospitals must amend their physician human resource plans as required by the Ministry; (z.5)  providing that hospitals may appoint physicians to the medical staff only in accordance with approved physician human resource plans.  R.S.O. 1990, c. P.40, s. 32 (1); 1996, c. 1, Sched. F, s. 14 (1-3); 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 96 (4, 5); 2006, c. 4, s. 52 (9, 10); 2010, c. 25, s. 27 (5); 2023, c. 4, Sched. 2, s. 12 (2). Same (2) Subsection 9.1 (1) applies, with necessary modifications, with respect to a person, persons or body authorized to issue directions under a regulation made under clause (1) (z.1) as if the person, persons or body were the Minister.  1996, c. 1, Sched. F, s. 14 (4). Same (3) A regulation made under this Act may be general or particular in its application.  1996, c. 1, Sched. F, s. 14 (4). Regulations for subsidiaries, etc. (4) The Minister may by regulation require hospital subsidiaries and hospital foundations to provide financial reports and returns to the Minister and prescribe the accounting principles and rules to be followed in making those financial reports and returns and the manner in which those financial reports and returns are to be provided.  1996, c. 1, Sched. F, s. 14 (4). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 1996, c. 1, Sched. F, s. 14 (1-4) - 01/03/1996 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 96 (4, 5) - 01/11/2004 2006, c. 4, s. 52 (9, 10) - 28/03/2006 2010, c. 25, s. 27 (5)
- 01/01/2011 2017, c. 11, Sched. 3, s. 14 - not in force 2023, c. 4, Sched. 2, s. 12 (2) - 24/07/2023