DEARBORN, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The city of Dearborn is proposing charging $1,000 to nursing homes and assisted care facilities every time its fire department gets a call to move a resident.

The city reviewed the proposal at its Sept. 9 meeting where it stated that assisted living/nursing home facilities are putting a drain on the city’s emergency services for calls to assist moving residents.

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“The facilities in question are compensated to maintain staff to assist their residents, and these calls are either due to a lack of proper equipment and/or training, or other reasons that neither warrant nor justify the use of city resources,” city documents stated. “Such calls not only cause delays in response to true emergencies, but are an added cost ultimately passed on to the residents.”

Whether the city levies the fee against the facility would be based on whether the incident could have been addressed by the facility without assistance from the city and whether the city response was due to the facility’s lack of personnel, lack of resources or a lack of interest in addressing the incident.

Sterling Heights and Westland have adopted similar cost-recovery ordinances, according to the city of Dearborn.