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Posted: May 07, 2021 2:47 PM ET | Last Updated: May 7
The Rosslyn Retirement Residence is at 1322 King Street East in Hamilton. The site was home to an outbreak that infected sixty-four residents and 22 staff members who tested positive for the virus. Sixteen residents died.(Dan Taekema/CBC)
Posted: May 04, 2021 11:34 AM ET | Last Updated: May 4
The Rosslyn Retirement Residence was evacuated on May 15 following a massive COVID-19 outbreak. Now the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority says it plans to issue a licence to reopen the facility.(Dan Taekema/CBC)
Ontario s retirement homes regulator says it intends to issue licences to reopen three retirement residences including the Rosslyn on the condition that their former owners are not given any decision-making authority when it comes to the finances or operation of the homes.
The Rosslyn was evacuated on May 15, 2020, amid a massive outbreak that one Hamilton official described as a crisis of care. Sixty-four residents and 22 staff members tested positive for the virus. Sixteen residents died.
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Ptasznik feels their behaviour is “outrageous” and the RHRA lawyer is just “looking for roadblocks.”
Cohen’s lawyer, Robert Karrass, insisted in January that the December RHRA report had “nothing to do with a death at L’Chaim” and there was no “inaction or pattern of inaction” that jeopardized the resident’s health.
He said this week there is no appeal process available for his client.
It should be noted that three of the eight current board members come from for-profit retirement home corporations perhaps part of the reason Ontario’s Auditor General found in a pointed December 2020 audit that the RHRA might be placing the financial welfare of operators ahead of the authority’s mandate to protect residents.