Keeping of Waiting List
12.7 (1) A person shall be removed from the waiting list for each home to which the person is awaiting admission as a long-stay resident and shall be placed on the refusal list if, (a) the person, (i) is a long-stay resident of another home, an approved charitable home for the aged under the Charitable Institutions Act or a nursing home under the Nursing Homes Act, or (ii) is not described in subclause (i) and does not occupy a bed in, (A) a hospital under the Public Hospitals Act or a private hospital licensed under the Private Hospitals Act, (B) a facility that is designated as a psychiatric facility under section 80.2 of the Mental Health Act and that is not exempt under that section from the requirement to provide in-patient services in paragraph 1 of subsection 4 (1) of Regulation 741 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under that Act, or (C) a facility listed in Schedule 1 to Regulation 272 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under the Developmental Services Act; and (b) a placement co-ordinator offers to authorize the person’s admission to a home, an approved charitable home for the aged under the Charitable Institutions Act or a nursing home under the Nursing Homes Act as a long-stay resident, and the person, (i) refuses to consent to admission, (ii) refuses to enter into the written agreement mentioned in clause 12.21 (1) (e) of this Regulation, clause 86 (1) (e) of Regulation 69 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under the Charitable Institutions Act or clause 155 (1) (e) of Regulation 832 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under the Nursing Homes Act, as applicable, or (iii) fails to move into the facility on or before the fifth day following the day on which he or she is informed of the availability of accommodation. O. Reg. 120/02, s. 11. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the reason the person acts in the manner described in subclause (1) (b) (i), (ii) or (iii) is that the person has a short-term illness or injury which, (a) prevents the person from moving into the facility at that time; or (b) would make moving into the facility at that time detrimental to the person’s health. O. Reg. 120/02, s. 11. (3) If a person described in subclause (1) (a) (i) is removed from the waiting list for a home under subsection (1), the person shall be placed on the waiting list for the home again to await admission as a long-stay resident if, (a) the person provides to the placement co-ordinator designated for the home under subsection 18 (3) of the Act a new written request for authorization of his or her admission to the home as a long-stay resident; and (b) placing the person on the waiting list for the home will not result in the total number of waiting lists for homes, approved charitable homes for the aged under the Charitable Institutions Act and nursing homes under the Nursing Homes Act on which the person is placed exceeding three. O. Reg. 120/02, s. 11. (4) If a person described in subclause (1) (a) (ii) is removed from the waiting list for a home under subsection (1), the person shall be placed on the waiting list for the home again to await admission as a long-stay resident if, (a) the person provides to the placement co-ordinator designated for the home under subsection 18 (3) of the Act a new written request for authorization of his or her admission to the home as a long-stay resident and, (i) the request is provided 24 weeks or more after the day the person was removed from the waiting list, or (ii) the request is provided less than 24 weeks after the day the person was removed from the waiting list but there has been a deterioration in the person’s condition or circumstances; and (b) placing the person on the waiting list for the home will not result in the total number of waiting lists for homes, approved charitable homes for the aged under the Charitable Institutions Act and nursing homes under the Nursing Homes Act on which the person is placed exceeding three. O. Reg. 120/02, s. 11. (5) Clause (4) (b) does not apply to a person who will be placed in category 1A on the waiting list for the home. O. Reg. 120/02, s. 11.