WINNIPEG Manitobans and people across the country want major improvements in long-term care, according to the results of an online survey. The findings by the Angus Reid Institute released Monday, highlight how COVID-19 deaths and infections during the pandemic have shifted people’s views of nursing homes. “And now I said to my kids, please don’t ever put me in a personal care home. We’ve got to figure out something different unless things change,” said Lisa Prost. Prost’s dad, 91-year-old Murray Balagus, survived a COVID-19 infection but died in hospital in January due to what the family was told was aspiration pneumonia. Prost said he was rushed to hospital after she found him foaming at the mouth and gurgling in his room at the care home.
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Witnesses to horror
Grieving, angry relatives determined to effect changes to protect province s seniors after nightmare at Maples Long Term Care Home
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A resident is removed from Maples Long Term Care Home by paramedics in November 2020. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
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Eddie Calisto-Tavares took matters into her own hands so she could hold her father’s at the end of his life.
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Eddie Calisto-Tavares took matters into her own hands so she could hold her father’s at the end of his life.
As a horrifying COVID-19 outbreak raged inside Maples Long Term Care Home last fall, she donned full-body personal protective equipment and became his designated caregiver.
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