Thread by @matpVI

So Dix with his 'plan' to decant complex care hospital patients to LTCs (without consulting) in the face of an expected new wave of Covid and flu

Let me tell you why this is laughable, and BC Gov is making up policy on the fly

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1: seniors, cancer patients, others with serious modals are in hospital for a reason - the need care that requires medications, physical movements requiring nursing and doctors at a level that cannot be provided at home or in long term care

2: Most LTCs are basically serviced by health aides, not nurses - there is be an LPN assigned for each shift for medications - but the aides are not trained or licensed for the care Dix expects - also holds for LPNs, mush of this type of care requires an RN

3: There is already a massive staff crunch at all levels of health - LTCs are actually getting hit harder as health aides are mostly younger, have young kids, and guess what - their kids are coming home from school, infecting families

4: Even if it were possible to 'decant' patients (what a horrible term) - it would require a massive shift of health staffing resources to LTCs, which negates the proscribed effort

5: It would mean, even if just a small percentage of complex care gets shifted, a new, huge load on LTC staff, who are already leaving in droves

6: Given all this - the added 'we can create 1500 new beds' is a total fallacy

It is simply not possible - and the fact BC Gov seems to think this will placate a population begs the question - why create beds, when they would not be needed with protections

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