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10 Feb, 5 tweets, 6 min read
The Rebuttal. #LTCjustice
(Written by yours truly and Natalie Mehra of @OntarioHealthC)
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thestar.com/opinion/contri…
In response to:
google.ca/amp/s/www.thes…
@Docs4LTCJustice @AmitAryaMD @NaheedD @drandrewb @OntarioHealthC @Canadians4LTC @JaneBrownNews @CarpAdvocacy @SueAnnLevy @IacovosMichael @Sue_Innovates @jkwan_md @nilikm @DrNancyOlivieri @GERONursing @DanyaalRaza @SemirBulle @skatingpj @MeMiller777 @CathyMParkes @matcharbonneau
Ps. More to come.
Limited words meant that we couldn’t address all the issues.
But this sums it up:

“On Feb. 1, the Toronto Star published an opinion column titled “Ending private long-term care would be an expensive mistake.”

Both on the facts and the ethics we disagree”.

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DEAR LORD I AM SO CLOSE TO PROFANITY RIGHT NOW⤵️
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YES YES YES @JustinTrudeau
(Here's to hoping our talks with him yesterday helped!)
#Canadians4LTCStandards #LTCjustice @Canadians4LTC
Part of my talk with @JustinTrudeau yesterday:
"In an online roundtable with healthcare professionals Thursday, @JustinTrudeau fielded a wide range of questions from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, & health advocates after encouraging them to flag concerns he should be aware of & should bring to the attention of prov. premiers"
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Spending my Sunday morning w/ the @TorontoStar #LTCJustice
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 ⤵️
“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”
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COMING SOON: Our team at @CCstandards is getting ready to rollout our second campaign for National Standards in LTC. More information to come soon! #🇨🇦4LTC
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24 Jan
1/7.
Let's take a moment to talk about how incredibly OFFENSIVE these tweets are. These tweets, which started a couple months ago, ACTIVELY PAINT A DISTORTED REPRESENTATION OF THE LTC CRISIS UNDERWAY (something I've been pointing out since she first started tweeting them).
2/7.
They ignore the growing # of daily deaths (which now amount to losing a senior every HOUR IN LTC).

They also ignore the fact that we have more homes in outbreak than at any point during the first wave.
3/7.
She tries to pull your focus to homes with no cases or less than 5 cases BUT WHAT ABOUT THE RECORD NO. OF HOMES WITH 50+ CASES⁉️

E.G., Jan 19 stats:
53 LTCHs w/50+infected staff/residents;
29 LTCHs w/100+infected staff/residents;
25 LTCHs w/150+infected staff/residents;
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From an ⁦@extendicare⁩ Assist supervisor:
After dedicating his life to nursing, he has lost trust in his employer. “There is no friggin’ way I would ever put [my mother] in a place like that. Never.”
⤵️ thelocal.to/whos-actually-…
...96 of Ontario’s 626 LTC homes have been outsourced, where the owner of the license has contracted a third party to operate the home. As of publication date, there have been 506 COVID-19 deaths in outsourced homes- 34% higher than homes that have not been outsourced.
Outsourcing is most prevalent among for-profit homes, but it happens across the industry: of the outsourced homes, 61 are for-profit, 30 are non-profit, and 5 are municipal.
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