2025-11-14 from ctvnews.ca
Dr. Amina Jabbar sees the crisis every day in her seniors’ internal medicine unit just outside Toronto.
“You know, at the beginning of fall… we’ve got a 30 per cent rate of patients who just can’t go home, can’t leave the unit,” she said. In the Trillium Health Partners hospital where she works, that means there’s no room for incoming patients — a problem now replicated across Ontario hospitals.
Government figures show nearly 5,000 patients in Ontario are stuck in hospitals. Labelled ALC (alternate level of care) patients, half of them are waiting for long-term-care beds, rehab beds or mental care and addictions facility beds, that are not opening fast enough.
Against this backdrop, Ontario home-care agency Ontario Health at Home is quietly launching what it calls “High-Intensity Bundled Home Care,” an initiative that will offer home care agencies up to $700 per day -care agencies to deliver hospital-level services directly in a patient’s home. The program is targeting at least 570 seniors or patients waiting for long term care, along with others waiting for mental health or addiction support or rehabilitation.
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