Will community care entities e.g., Adult Disability Homes, Shelters, Boys’ Home, and Girls’ Home, Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs), Senior Care Centres (SCCs), Senior Activity Centres and Social Day Care Centres need to be licensed under HCSA?

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These entities provide services that are predominantly social in nature and to that extent will not be regulated under HCSA.

However, if these entities also deliver services that are clinical in nature, then the clinical services will have to be licensed. For example, if the senior activity centre has a doctor providing clinical services, either the doctor will require an Outpatient Medical Service licence, or the doctor has to be employed by a clinic licensee.

Will community care entities e.g., Adult Disability Homes, Shelters, Boys’ Home, and Girls’ Home, Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs), Senior Care Centres (SCCs), Senior Activity Centres and Social Day Care Centres need to be licensed under HCSA?

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