In the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak that left 47 residents and two PSWs dead, the executive director of Ottawa’s Madonna Care Community allowed a manager to go in to work while infected, a provincial inspection report has found.
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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
When Denny Shortliffe died on April 23, it was fitting that his daughter posted a Klingon tribute on Facebook.
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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
When Denny Shortliffe died on April 23, it was fitting that his daughter posted a Klingon tribute on Facebook.
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Posted: Dec 10, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Daughter says trust has been destroyed after violations at mother’s long-term care home
CBC News Ottawa4 months ago
0:57Stephanie Kocielski, whose mother lives at the Madonna Care Community, says a staff member caught abusing her mother was allowed to continue working with her for another five days. She says that incident, in addition to lapses in infection control, has destroyed her trust in the care home.0:57
Following four COVID-19 outbreaks and more than 50 deaths at Madonna Care Community in Ottawa, new inspection reports from Ontario s Ministry of Long-Term Care point to several serious violations at the home since April.