Ontario quietly introduces $700-a-day home care to relieve hospital overcrowding
Dr. Samir Sinha, a geriatrician at Mount Sinai and Director of Health Policy Research for the National Institute on Ageing, says the province is offering what amounts to hospital-level funding to home-care agencies.
“If you offered me (over $700) a day as a service provider, I could almost provide 24-hour care. This is a lot of money — basically hospital rates — to keep a patient at home.”