Application for authorization of admission, ALC patients
 240.2 (1) After an ALC patient has been determined to be eligible for long-term care home admission either under Part IV of the Act or section 240.1 of this Regulation, the placement co-ordinator shall provide the patient or substitute decision-maker, if any, with information about, (a)  the length of waiting lists and approximate times to admission for relevant long-term care homes; (b)  vacancies in relevant long-term care homes; and (c)  how to obtain information from the Ministry about long-term care homes. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (2) If, after being provided with the information described in subsection (1), the ALC patient or their substitute decision-maker, if any, refuses to submit an application for authorization of admission, the placement co-ordinator shall select one or more homes for the ALC patient even if the ALC patient is already on a waiting list for one or more homes, and no application is required to authorize admission under section 60.1 of the Act. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (3) If an application for authorization of admission has commenced under this section without the consent of the ALC patient or their substitute decision-maker, as the case may be, and the patient or substitute decision-maker subsequently agrees to the application for authorization of admission, the ALC patient is not required to submit an application for authorization of admission. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (4) If the ALC patient is already on the waiting list for homes that they have selected, any additional homes selected by the placement co-ordinator under subsection (2) do not count toward the limit set out in section 181 of this Regulation. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (5) In selecting a long-term care home for the ALC patient, the placement co-ordinator shall consider, (a)  the patient’s condition and circumstances; (b)  the class of accommodation requested by the patient, if any; and (c)  the proximity of the home. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (6) If no class of accommodation is requested by the ALC patient, the placement co-ordinator shall select basic accommodation. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (7) The placement co-ordinator shall only select a long-term care home for the ALC patient, (a)  that is within a 70 kilometre radius from the patient’s preferred location; or (b)  that is within a 150 kilometre radius from the patient’s preferred location, if the patient’s preferred location is in the geographic area of the North East Local Health Integration Network or the North West Local Health Integration Network. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (8) The restrictions set out in clause (7) (b) do not apply where there is not a long-term care home within the radius that would otherwise apply, or there are limited vacancies in the available homes, in which case the placement co-ordinator shall select the home or homes that are next closest to the patient’s preferred location. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (9) If the home selected by the placement co-ordinator is not in the geographic area of the placement co-ordinator making the offer, that placement co-ordinator shall co-ordinate with the appropriate placement co-ordinator for that home. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (10) The appropriate placement co-ordinator shall provide the licensee of each selected home with copies of the assessments and other relevant information gathered under section 240.1. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (11) The licensee shall, in writing, approve or withhold approval of the admission in accordance with subsections 51 (7) to (9) of the Act promptly after receiving the information under subsection (10) of this section, and if the licensee withholds approval of the ALC patient’s admission, the licensee shall, at the time of withholding, inform the appropriate placement co-ordinator in writing of the ground or grounds on which the licensee is withholding approval and a brief explanation of why, but is not required to notify the patient. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2. (12) In this section, “patient’s preferred location” means, (a)  the address or addresses identified by the ALC patient or the substitute decision-maker, if any, or (b)  if an address is not identified by the patient or the substitute decision-maker, the address of the patient’s primary residence, or, where a primary residence of the patient cannot be identified, the address of the hospital where the patient is located. O. Reg. 484/22, s. 2.