HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES, O. Reg. 187/22

• Jurisdiction: Ontario

ontario regulation 187/22

made under the

Connecting Care Act, 2019

Made: March 10, 2022
Filed: March 11, 2022
Published on e-Laws: March 11, 2022
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: March 26, 2022

Home and Community Care Services

Home and community care services

1. For the purposes of the Act and this Regulation, the following are home and community care services:

1. Professional services.

2. Personal support services.

3. Homemaking services.

4. Community support services.

5. Indigenous services.

6. Care co-ordination services.

7. Home and community care services that include residential accommodation.

Interpretation

2. (1) In this Regulation,

“accessible format” may include, but is not limited to, large print, recorded audio and electronic formats, braille and other formats usable by persons with disabilities, within the meaning of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005; (“format accessible”)

“care co-ordination services” means the services required to facilitate access to and co-ordinate the provision of home and community care services to patients, including,

(a) assessing and reassessing patient requirements,

(b) making determinations of eligibility,

(c) developing, evaluating, and revising care plans,

(d) making referrals to other providers, and

(e) terminating the provision of a service; (“services de coordination des soins”)

“care plan” means the care plan developed, evaluated and revised by a health service provider or Ontario Health Team under sections 10 and 15; (“plan de soins”)

“caregiver support and respite services” means counselling, training, visiting and providing information, respite and other assistance to caregivers to support them in carrying out their caregiving responsibilities; (“services de soutien et de relève aux fournisseurs de soins”)

“client intervention and assistance services” means providing support to patients to assist them to cope with activities of everyday living; (“services d’intervention et d’assistance destinés aux clients”)

“community support services” means the following services:

1. Meal services.

2. Transportation services.

3. Caregiver support and respite services.

4. Adult day programs.

5. Home maintenance and repair services.

6. Friendly visiting services.

7. Security checks or reassurance services.

8. Social or recreational services.

9. Client intervention and assistance services.

10. Emergency response services.

11. Foot care services.

12. Home help referral services.

13. Independence training.

14. Palliative care education and consultation services.

15. Psychogeriatric consulting services relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

16. Public education services relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

17. Services for persons with blindness or visual impairment.

18. Services for persons with deafness, congenital hearing loss or acquired hearing loss.

19. Bereavement services.

20. Behavioural supports.

21. Education, prevention, and awareness services pertaining to,

i. home and community care services,

ii. mental health and addictions,

iii. chronic disease management,

iv. aphasia and communication disorders, and

v. vocational training and education for persons with a cognitive or physical impairment to assist them to enter the work force or education system in the community; (“services de soutien communautaire”)

“emergency response services” means installing electronic devices in homes to connect patients with emergency response centres; (“services d’intervention en cas d’urgence”)

“home and community care services that include residential accommodation” means those services that include both community services provided under the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994 and accommodation that was funded by the Agency immediately before the coming into force of this subsection; (“services de soins à domicile et en milieu communautaire qui comprennent un hébergement”)

“home help referral services” means referring a patient who requires home help services to a person who provides such services; (“services d’aiguillage en matière d’aide ménagère”)

“homemaking services” means the following services:

1. Housecleaning.

2. Laundry.

3. Shopping.

4. Banking.

5. Paying bills.

6. Planning menus.

7. Preparing meals.

8. Caring for children.

9. Assisting a patient with any of the activities referred to in paragraphs 1 to 8.

10. Training a patient to carry out or assist with any of the activities referred to in paragraphs 1 to 8; (“services d’aides familiales”)

“incapable” means unable to understand the information that is relevant to making a decision concerning the subject-matter or unable to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of a decision or a lack of decision; (“incapable”)

“independence training” means teaching the skills to improve independent functioning in the community, including the effective use of personal support services; (“formation à l’autonomie”)

“Indigenous services” means the following services:

1. Traditional healing.

2. Indigenous cultural support services; (“services pour les Autochtones”)

“local health integration network” means a local health integration network as defined in section 2 of the Local Health System Integration Act, 2006; (“réseau local d’intégration des services de santé”)

“long-term care home” means a long-term care home under the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, and “resident of a long-term care home” means a resident of such a home within the meaning of that Act; (“foyer de soins de longue durée”)

“long-term mental health impairment” means a cognitive impairment that,

(a) is continuous or recurrent,

(b) is expected to last one year or more into the future, and

(c) has the direct and cumulative effect of substantially restricting the individual’s ability to carry out one or more activities of daily living; (“déficience mentale à long terme”)

“meal services” means delivering nutritious meals to a patient’s home or providing them in other locations in the community; (“services relatifs aux repas”)

“Patient Bill of Rights” means the bill of rights set out in subsection 9 (1); (“déclaration des droits des patients”)

“patient who is educated at home” means a patient who is receiving satisfactory instruction at home in accordance with clause 21 (2) (a) of the Education Act; (“patient qui reçoit un enseignement au foyer”)

“personal support services” means the following services:

1. Personal hygiene activities.

2. Routine personal activities of living.

3. Assisting a patient with any of the activities referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

4. Training a patient to carry out or assist with any of the activities referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2; (“services de soutien personnel”)

“private school” means a private school as defined in subsection 1 (1) of the Education Act; (“école privée”)

“professional services” means the following services:

1. Nursing services.

2. Occupational therapy services.

3. Physiotherapy services.

4. Social work services.

5. Speech-language pathology services.

6. Dietetics services.

7. Training a person to provide any of the services referred to in paragraphs 1 to 6.

8. Diagnostic and laboratory services.

9. Medical supplies, dressings and treatment equipment necessary to the provision of nursing services, occupational therapy services, physiotherapy services, speech-language pathology services or dietetics services.

10. Pharmacy services.

11. Respiratory therapy services.

12. Social service work services.

13. Psychology services; (“services professionnels”)

“psychogeriatric consulting services” means providing psychogeriatric consultation, training and support to staff of long-term care homes and to health service providers and Ontario Health Teams funded under section 21 of the Act to provide home and community care services; (“services de consultation en psychogériatrie”)

“responsive behaviours” means behaviours that often indicate,

(a) an unmet need in an individual, whether cognitive, physical, emotional, social, environmental or other, or

(b) a response to circumstances within the social or physical environment that may be frustrating, frightening or confusing to an individual; (“comportements réactifs”)

“school” means a school as defined in subsection 1 (1) of the Education Act and includes a private school as defined in subsection 1 (1) of that Act; (“école”)

“services for persons with blindness or visual impairment” means providing rehabilitation, visual orientation, counselling, referrals and technology to persons with blindness or visual impairment; (“services destinés aux personnes aveugles ou ayant une déficience visuelle”)

“services for persons with deafness, congenital hearing loss or acquired hearing loss” means providing rehabilitation and communication training, counselling, technology and education to persons with deafness, congenital hearing loss or acquired hearing loss; (“services destinés aux personnes sourdes ou ayant une déficience auditive congénitale ou acquise”)

“transportation services” means providing transportation to patients who are unable to use existing transportation or assisting patients to obtain access to existing transportation. (“services de transport”)

(2) For the purposes of subsection 1 (4) of the Act, a local health integration network is deemed to be a health service provider, and to have been funded by the Agency under section 21 of the Act to provide home and community care services for the purposes of the Act, except with regard to the following provisions of the Act:

1. Section 21.

2. Section 22.

3. Section 23.

4. Section 24.

5. Section 25.

6. Section 26.

7. Section 27.

8. Section 28, to the extent that it applies to a provision excluded by this subsection.

9. Clause 31 (a).

10. Section 33.

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