Bill 102 explained in plain English
Closing Oversight Loopholes for Home Care Clinics Act, 2019
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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This bill amends existing Ontario laws to create new oversight and inspection requirements for home care clinics, including complaint review processes and annual inspections by medical officers of health.
This bill, titled the Closing Oversight Loopholes for Home Care Clinics Act, 2019, makes several changes to Ontario's laws concerning home care clinics. It introduces new requirements for home care clinics regarding complaint reviews, notifying public health officials about complaints and their intention to operate, and providing their address to public health officials. The bill also grants medical officers of health the authority to inspect home care clinics at least once a year. These changes aim to increase oversight and transparency for home care clinics.
- Requires home care clinics to establish a process for reviewing complaints about infection prevention and control.
- Requires operators of home care clinics to notify the medical officer of health if a complaint is made to the clinic.
- Requires individuals intending to operate a home care clinic to notify the medical officer of health before starting.
- Requires home care clinic operators to provide their clinic's address to the medical officer of health.
- Requires home care clinic operators to post specific information in a conspicuous and easily accessible location within the clinic.
- Grants medical officers of health the power and duty to inspect home care clinics at least once a year to ensure compliance with the law.
- Adds the duty to oversee and inspect home care clinics to the responsibilities of the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care.
- Defines 'home care clinic' within the Health Protection and Promotion Act.
- Updates the rights of persons receiving community services to include being informed about laws, rules, policies, and complaint procedures related to home care clinics.
- Operators of home care clinics
- Home care clinics
- Individuals intending to operate a home care clinic
- Persons receiving community services at home care clinics
- Medical officers of health
- The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
- Home care clinics must establish a complaint review process.
- Home care clinic operators must notify the medical officer of health of complaints.
- Individuals must notify the medical officer of health before operating a home care clinic.
- Home care clinic operators must provide their address to the medical officer of health.
- Home care clinic operators must post specified information.
- Medical officers of health have the right and duty to inspect home care clinics.
- Persons receiving services at home care clinics have the right to be informed and to know complaint procedures.
- This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify what 'prescribed requirements' for posting information means.
- The bill does not specify what 'other prescribed premises' are excluded from the definition of a home care clinic.
- The bill does not specify the exact timeframe for the review of complaints made to home care clinics.
- The bill does not specify the content of the 'information set out in subsection (1)' that must be posted in the clinic, other than it refers to subsection (1) of section 31 of the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994, which is not fully detailed in the provided text.
- The bill does not specify what constitutes a 'health hazard related to infection prevention and control' beyond the context of a complaint.
Introduces a definition for 'home care clinic' and adds new sections requiring complaint review processes, notification to medical officers of health about complaints, and notice of intention to operate a home care clinic.
Source: Sections 1, 3, 4
Amends the definition of 'home care clinic', updates patient rights regarding information and complaint procedures, requires operators to provide the clinic's address to the medical officer of health, and mandates the posting of specific information in the clinic.
Source: Sections 5, 6, 7, 8
Adds the responsibility for the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to oversee and inspect home care clinics.
Source: Section 11
Adds a new section that gives medical officers of health the right and responsibility to enter and inspect home care clinics at least annually to check for compliance with the Act and regulations.
Source: Section 10 (adding section 62.1)
Amends a section to include 'section 62.1' related to inspections.
Source: Section 9
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