"A whistleblower at a Courtice retirement home says management removed the door handles on rooms of COVID-19 positive residents, “trapping” them in their suites for days in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly virus."
"The employee, who wished to remain anonymous, tells CityNews that a manager at the White Cliffe Terrace Retirement Residence ordered maintenance staff to remove door handles on some fourth-floor assisted living suites last week."
THESE PROVIDERS SHOULD BE CHARGED.
YOU ALL GOOD WITH THIS @RaymondChoPC....NOTHING TO SAY @RaymondChoPC ⁉️⁉️⁉️
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"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"
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”
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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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).
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.