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Section 50.1
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50.1. For the purposes of section 29 of the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2), only a public institution is required to establish a procedure to examine the complaints referred to in Divisions I and II of Chapter III of Title II of Part I of the Act. In the case of an integrated health and social services centre, the procedure applies to complaints from users of the integrated centre and to those from users of private institutions governed by the Act, with respect to the private institution facilities located in the integrated centre’s territory.
The local service quality and complaints commissioner appointed by the board of directors of an integrated centre or, as the case may be, any medical examiner designated by the board is responsible for examining the complaints from users of private institutions to which the procedure applies. The local commissioner of an integrated centre is also responsible for the handling of reports of maltreatment made within the scope of the anti-maltreatment policy adopted by private institutions under the Act to combat maltreatment of seniors and other persons of full age in vulnerable situations (chapter L-6.3), with respect to the private institution facilities located in the integrated centre’s territory.
A private institution must inform every user that he or she is entitled to file a complaint under the complaint examination procedure of the integrated centre concerned. In all of its facilities, the private institution must also post in public view a document explaining who is entitled to file a complaint under the procedure, including the heirs and legal representatives of a deceased user, and describing the terms governing the exercise of such right. The contact information of the competent local commissioner must be mentioned in the document.
