In the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak that left 47 residents and two PSWs dead, the executive director of Ottawa’s Madonna Care Community allowed a manager to go in to work while infected, a provincial inspection report has found.
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Never again. The Ford government’s deathly mismanagement of COVID-19 in Ontario’s nursing homes is documented in grisly detail in the scathing 322-page report by Ontario’s Long Term Care COVID-19 Commission’s, released Friday. Further, it explains how the sector, its residents and staff were rendered vulnerable and unprepared by 30 years of successive government neglect. Ontario, rich in economic and social resources, had one of the worst rates of nursing home deaths in the industrialized world.
This comprehensive, accessibly written report doesn’t stop there. Its 85 meticulous recommendations lay out a plan to fix Ontario’s long-term care system and ensure this completely preventable tragedy never happens again.
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Never again. The Ford government’s deathly mismanagement of COVID-19 in Ontario’s nursing homes is documented in grisly detail in the scathing 322-page report by Ontario’s Long Term Care COVID-19 Commission’s, released Friday. Further, it explains how the sector, its residents and staff were rendered vulnerable and unprepared by 30 years of successive government neglect. Ontario, rich in economic and social resources, had one of the worst rates of nursing home deaths in the industrialized world.
This comprehensive, accessibly written report doesn’t stop there. Its 85 meticulous recommendations lay out a plan to fix Ontario’s long-term care system and ensure this completely preventable tragedy never happens again.
LTC report recommendations draw thumbs up; now it s time for Ontario to act, advocates say “It’s all there in the report, what needs to be done, but it’s going to take commitment and investment.
Author of the article: Bruce Deachman
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Grace Welch, advocacy committee chair of the Champlain Region Family Council Network, says the recommendations of Ontario s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission will go a long way to fixing the province s long-term care system, but the government needs to act. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia
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The recommendations released Friday by Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission are getting top marks from those who have been advocating for wholesale reform of the sector. What those people want to see now, though, is the implementation by the province of those proposals.