North Shore Health Region v. The Queen, 2006 TCC 585 -- summary under Residential Unit

The registrant was not a "public hospital" given that it did not provide its patients with a high degree of complex medical care but, instead, provided assisting living in varying degrees, with the availability of trained nurses to dispense medication and render relatively routine medical assistance if required, but with there being no physicians on staff and the visits of a geriatrician being infrequent. Although the registrant was designated as a "hospital" for certain provincial regulatory purposes, such designation was on the basis that it qualified as a "community care facility" rather than as a hospital in the ordinary sense of that word.