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~~1 FLonq-term-care wait expected to get longer By Stephanie Hounseil I CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF A year's wait to get into a long-termi care facility and the possibility of being placed far [rom home has some seniors worried and regional counicillors expressing frustration. The topic was on the table at Tuesday's regional bealtb and social services committee. A staff report said hospitals want tor discbarge patients who are going to a long-termn-care (LTC) home as soon as room is available to free up hospital beds - but that can lead to a stressftîl situation for the seniors and their families. Those waiting in bospital are being told that if they do ot take the available LTC bcd tbey will be charged up to $700 per day," the report statles. "Seniors are then forced to mov c n LIC bornes tbat are not their choîce and conmun- lv a long distance from their loved unes." Someitimes, tbe report states, their spouses can't dnive any- more arîd can't easîly visit tbem at the facilîty If a senior in the community needs urgent admission, it's the samne situation. Tbey must take the first bed available, no matier wbere it os witbîn tbe catcbment area of the Missîssauga-Halton Comînuity Care Access Centre (CCAC), the report states. Ibat means a Milton senior could be placed in a home in Mîssissauga or even soutb Etobicoke. once there tbey cao transfer, but that can involve a waît of over îwo years since îbey're no longer a priority, the report States. An initiative by the Province and Local Healtb Integration Networks is seeking to address tbis situation, but uts too soon to telI l i is belping. For seniors not designated as "urgent," tbe wait for place- ment cao be more than a year to get into one of the tbree homes owned and operated by Haltun Regiun (Allendale in Milton, Post Inn Village in Oakville and Creek Way Village in Burlington); they're able to, choose whicb home tbey go to. The admission process os co-ordinated by CCACs and Local Heahth Integration Networks. Adelina Urhanski, commissioner of social and communo- ty services, said the issue of LIC home delays and the fact seniors wbo need care urgently can't decide wbere they end up is an increasing one. Milton Councîllor Colin Best said tbe lack of LIC home beds is affecting our already-burdened bospitals. "A number of people wbo are on critical care in tbe bospi- tal sbould be in long-termi care," be told fellow committee meonhers. In Milton, the situation is made worse by renovations at Allendale, wbicb bas led to a temporary reduction in admis- sions in order to bave 25 empty beds. 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