Some excerpts:
From Dr. Jean Skillman:
“The homes often scrambled to schedule enough staff, what she saw as the result of business decisions by the homes’ owners and boards that undercut the quality of care residents received.....cont ⤵️
From Dr. Jean Skillman:
“The homes often scrambled to schedule enough staff, what she saw as the result of business decisions by the homes’ owners and boards that undercut the quality of care residents received.....cont ⤵️
“Homes relied too heavily on part-time staff to avoid paying benefits, paid low wages for the work and had to spend too much time on paper work to meet ministry inspection requirements, Skillman said”
“Another Star series revealed how thousands of nursing home residents had been prescribed risky antipsychotics to manage their agitated or aggressive behaviours because homes do not have adequate trained staff.”
= CHEMICAL RESTRAINT (I know this first hand)
= CHEMICAL RESTRAINT (I know this first hand)
“A 2011 investigation detailed rampant physical and sexual abuse, including rape.
The report found more than 10 care home residents were verbally, physically or sexually assaulted each month”
The report found more than 10 care home residents were verbally, physically or sexually assaulted each month”
Glad @extendicare got it’s act together over the years 🤨 
2003
”Beginning with Natalie Babineau’s tragic experience, the Toronto Star launches an in-depth investigation into LTC in Ontario.
The Star investigation will show how Babineau’s treatment reflects problems throughout the system, leaving our most vulnerable citizens at risk.”
”Beginning with Natalie Babineau’s tragic experience, the Toronto Star launches an in-depth investigation into LTC in Ontario.
The Star investigation will show how Babineau’s treatment reflects problems throughout the system, leaving our most vulnerable citizens at risk.”
#RiggedInspections
“Nov. 20, 1989
The Star investigation also reveals owners and administrators of nursing homes are given advance notice of all annual inspection and re-licensing visits. The number of inspectors has dropped significantly.”
“Nov. 20, 1989
The Star investigation also reveals owners and administrators of nursing homes are given advance notice of all annual inspection and re-licensing visits. The number of inspectors has dropped significantly.”
#RiggedInspections
“Most have been replaced by taxpayer-paid consultants, called compliance advisers, who demonstrate to the industry how they can comply with government regulations”.
“Most have been replaced by taxpayer-paid consultants, called compliance advisers, who demonstrate to the industry how they can comply with government regulations”.
Dear lord
FYI: Mike Harris (Aka human 🗑) gave the majority of contracts to 3 FOR PROFIT providers as premier- one of those 3 was Leisureworld ⤵️
FYI: Mike Harris (Aka human 🗑) gave the majority of contracts to 3 FOR PROFIT providers as premier- one of those 3 was Leisureworld ⤵️
Dec. 26, 2020
“A Star analysis shows that in the first three quarters of 2020, three major for-profit nursing home companies collectively paid out nearly $171 million to shareholders at the same time they received $138.5 million through provincial pandemic pay.”
“A Star analysis shows that in the first three quarters of 2020, three major for-profit nursing home companies collectively paid out nearly $171 million to shareholders at the same time they received $138.5 million through provincial pandemic pay.”
How many LTC families have gone through this⁉️ (TOO MANY).
“Just as Martina & Noella feared, the fallout for lodging a complaint over their mother’s care with the administrator of Versa-Care Hamilton had immediate consequences” CONT.
“Just as Martina & Noella feared, the fallout for lodging a complaint over their mother’s care with the administrator of Versa-Care Hamilton had immediate consequences” CONT.
“Staff froze them out and stopped speaking to them. They had clearly broken an unwritten rule”
I HEAR THIS ALL THE TIME.
All the damn time.
I HEAR THIS ALL THE TIME.
All the damn time.
I’m officially balling over here.
Imagine if this was your mother.
Your grandmother.
#NatalieBabinaeu
Imagine if this was your mother.
Your grandmother.
#NatalieBabinaeu
“Martina recalled one of the hospital staff saying the ulcer had eaten past her mother’s tailbone and into her internal organs”.
Police called to hospital yet NO CHARGES LAID AGAINST HOME “based on the opinion of the geriatrician on shift”
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That geriatrician should be FIRED.
Police called to hospital yet NO CHARGES LAID AGAINST HOME “based on the opinion of the geriatrician on shift”
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That geriatrician should be FIRED.
This poor woman. I feel physically ill.
How many others did this monster Leonid Kozlov rape during his FIVE YEARS working at this LTC home?
How many others did this monster Leonid Kozlov rape during his FIVE YEARS working at this LTC home?
“Ontario nursing homes are drugging helpless seniors at an alarming rate with powerful antipsychotic drugs, despite warnings that the meds can kill elderly patients suffering from dementia”
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“Elderly patients with dementia treated with atypical antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death compared to placebo,” the warning says, adding that these patients face a 60% increased risk of death compared with similar patients who are not taking these drugs”.
“These medications are being used as a routine, when they are extremely powerful and are not proven to work for seniors. It’s very scary,” said @geezerlaw, a lawyer at the Advocate Centre for the Elderly, a community legal clinic for low-income seniors”
“Nursing homes are required to obtain “informed consent” from patients or their substitute decision-makers before prescribing antipsychotics.
Ethel Anderson’s husband said doctors never got his consent to administer olanzapine, which was backed up by a subsequent investigation”
Ethel Anderson’s husband said doctors never got his consent to administer olanzapine, which was backed up by a subsequent investigation”
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