VANCOUVER Internal documents and a freedom of information battle reveal details of the provincial government’s quiet changes to outbreak response in B.C. care homes, which are being criticized as slow, confusing and inadequate. Implemented last fall, new criteria redefining outbreaks did not alter the province’s testing strategy in care homes. Under the new guidelines, in many cases a positive COVID-19 test for a single staff member was met with little more than meetings and a secrecy clause. CTV News Vancouver has obtained documents from Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health discussing “enhanced monitoring” and “enhanced surveillance” procedures, which avoided a formal outbreak declaration in the event of a single staff member being diagnosed with the coronavirus.
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VANCOUVER - An inspection of a long-term care home that was the site of British Columbia s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak found staffing levels were low and cleaning was inadequate as the virus spread throughout the facility.
Bernadette Cheung poses for a photograph outside Little Mountain Place, where her grandmother, who passed away, was a resident, in Vancouver, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. An inspection of the long-term care home found staffing levels were low and cleaning was inadequate as the virus spread throughout the facility. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Staff shortage amid B.C. s deadliest COVID-19 care home outbreak: report
by Laura Dhillon Kane, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 1, 2021 12:34 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 1, 2021 at 12:44 pm EDT
VANCOUVER An inspection of a long-term care home that was the site of British Columbia’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak found staffing levels were low and cleaning was inadequate as the virus spread throughout the facility.
The Vancouver Coastal Health inspection report obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom of information request says these two issues were rectified while the outbreak was underway in Little Mountain Place.
Bernadette Cheung, whose grandmother died of COVID-19 at the facility along with 40 other residents, wants more answers, including details on how the staffing shortage and poor infection control potentially worsened the outbreak.
An inspection of a long-term care home that was the site of British Columbia s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak found staffing levels were low and cleaning was inadequate.
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