Take Care: COVID-19 pushes long-term care issues into the spotlight After years of warning signs and health-care worker unions sounding alarm bells, it took a pandemic to cast a spotlight on the realities inside Saskatchewan s long-term care homes.
Author of the article: Lynn Giesbrecht
Publishing date: Mar 06, 2021 • March 6, 2021 • 10 minute read • Beverley Hartnell holds a photo of her father, Bernard Hartnell, in front of her home in Regina, Saskatchewan on Feb. 2, 2021. Bernard was a resident at Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home until he died of COVID-19 in January 2021. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post
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REGINA A Regina woman is raising concerns about outbreak preparedness at Santa Maria Senior Citizen’s Home after her father who lived at the facility died due to COVID-19. Beverley Hartnell last saw and spoke with her father, Bernard, a day before he died from COVID-19 at 88 years old. He didn’t open his eyes and he had on an oxygen mask. So it was nice to be there, but I couldn’t get close, I wanted to hug him, Hartnell said. Hartnell tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 26 and 16 days later, he became the fourth resident to die from COVID-19 at Santa Maria.