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Ontario long-term care homes and the provincial ministry that oversees them were not sufficiently prepared or equipped to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in an effective way, despite years of warnings and recommendations for change, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk has concluded.
In a special report tabled Wednesday, Lysyk found that not only was the sector unprepared for what would come, with no pandemic planning, low staff levels and poor infection control, but some actions the provincial government took early in the pandemic made an already bad situation in some homes worse.
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Long-term care homes were unprepared for the pandemic, auditor general finds
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Ontario long-term care homes and the provincial ministry that oversees them were not sufficiently prepared or equipped to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in an effective way, despite years of warnings and recommendations for change, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk has concluded.
In a special report tabled Wednesday, Lysyk found that not only was the sector unprepared for what would come, with no pandemic planning, low staff levels and poor infection control, but some actions the provincial government took early in the pandemic made an already bad situation in some homes worse.
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