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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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Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis reveals.
Frances Rowlin, seen here with her goddaughter in 2011. Rowlin died at the age of 77 after contracting COVID-19 at Charleswood Care Centre. (Submitted by Dorothy Young)
Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis reveals.
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While for-profit care homes have only one-quarter of the nursing home beds in the province, they account for 44 per cent of care-home deaths.
For-profit care homes have higher COVID-19 death rates among Winnipeg nursing homes
Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis revealed.
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