Special circumstances, pandemic, hospital admissions
 208.2 (1) This section applies in the special circumstance of processing the admission to a long-term care home of a person who occupies a bed in a hospital under the Public Hospitals Act during a pandemic, so as to expedite the reduction of severe capacity pressures facing the hospital. O. Reg. 83/20, s. 3. (2) Where a person described in subsection (1) requires admission to a long-term care home, placement co-ordinators and licensees are exempt from complying with the requirements under Part III of the Act to the extent necessary to effect the admission and the following modifications are made respecting the application of Part III of the Act: 1. The placement co-ordinator shall make a determination of eligibility for admission to a long-term care home based on as much information as is available in the circumstances about the person’s, i. physical and mental health, ii. requirements for medical treatment and health care, iii. functional capacity, iv. requirements for personal care, and v. behaviour. 2. After the person has been determined to be eligible for long-term care home admission, the placement co-ordinator shall select the home for the person even if the person is already on a waiting list for one or more homes. 3. In selecting a home under paragraph 2, the placement co-ordinator shall take into consideration the following factors: i. The person’s condition and circumstances. ii. The person’s preferences, including any preferences relating to the proximity of the home or homes to the applicant’s family, home and community and support networks. iii. The class of accommodation requested by the person. 4. 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. 5. If the person has not already made an application for authorization of admission, they are not required to make the application for authorization of admission, so long as they have provided consent to the disclosure of all information necessary for the appropriate placement co-ordinator to deal with the application. 6. The appropriate placement co-ordinator shall co-ordinate the provision, to the licensee of the home for which authorization of admission is sought, of as much information as is available in the circumstances about the matters listed in paragraph 1, and this information may be communicated orally. 7. The licensee shall, either orally or in writing, approve or withhold approval of the admission in accordance with subsections 44 (7) to (9) of the Act, as modified by this section, within five days of receiving the information under paragraph 6, and if the licensee withholds approval of the person’s admission, the licensee shall, at the time of withholding, either orally or in writing inform the appropriate placement co-ordinator 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 person. 8. Where the person is waiting for admission to a regular long-stay bed, the person shall be placed in category 1 of the waiting list referred to in section 171 in respect of every waiting list on which they are placed, unless the person would otherwise be placed in a higher ranking category. 9. The appropriate placement co-ordinator shall authorize admission to a home only if the information provided to the licensee under paragraph 6 was obtained by the placement co-ordinator within the six months preceding the authorization. 10. The appropriate placement co-ordinator may authorize the person’s admission to preferred accommodation in the home even if basic accommodation has been requested, and in such a case, the licensee shall make the accommodation available as basic accommodation. 11. The appropriate placement co-ordinator shall authorize admission only if the person consents to the admission. O. Reg. 83/20, s. 3.