Developing and implementing policies and procedures
Overall compliance with the legislated standards of care
In his role as administrator, Renfrew will report to the IH board chair.
According to IH, “Matt Renfrew is an experienced health-care leader with expertise in long-term care. He has managed at the Overlander long term care home in Kamloops since 2013 and is currently Interior Health’s interim director of clinical operations for Community Seniors Care.”
The Florentine consists of 20 independently funded long-term care beds on the second floor, which the administrator will oversee. The assisted living portion of the facility falls under the jurisdiction of the Assisted Living Registrar and is not subject to the administration process being applied to the long-term care section of the home.
However, on Tuesday, Public Safety Minister released a statement clarifying the move. “We are examining the use of periodic roadblocks only set up at places like BC Ferries or on Highway 1 leaving the Lower Mainland, to discourage recreational travel,” Farnworth said. “There will be no random individual stops. Our intention is to discourage recreational and leisure travel, not punish people, and we are not interested in disrupting commuters and people going about their lives.” More information on the travel restrictions is expected to be released on Friday, April 23. The new and extended measures come as a result of growing pressure from hospitalizations due to COVID-19, according to B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix.
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Health Minister Adrian Dix faces calls to release more information on where COVID-19 variants are spreading, who is becoming infected and what sectors of the economy are hardest hit after the number of cases of the highly contagious P1 variant nearly doubled over the Easter weekend.
Dix did not commit to releasing the figures, but said Monday he expects the more-transmissible variants to eventually replace earlier strains of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
“What we know is, the most transmissive variants of COVID-19 are ultimately going to take over,” Dix said. “We’ve seen that in other jurisdictions and we expect to see that here.”
Don’t travel this Easter weekend, and if you must, stick to your region with a day trip at most, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday. “If you are in doubt at all this weekend. . .