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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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Eddie Calisto-Tavares father died in the Maples Personal Care Home COVID-19 outbreak.
Despite the desperate pleas of family members to the Manitoba government to send help to their loved ones at Maples Personal Care Home, which was stricken with a COVID-19 outbreak last fall, health officials failed to notice the emerging crisis.
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Despite the desperate pleas of family members to the Manitoba government to send help to their loved ones at Maples Personal Care Home, which was stricken with a COVID-19 outbreak last fall, health officials failed to notice the emerging crisis.
In late October, families with loved ones in Maples told the media they were seriously concerned about staffing levels and infections. That was a week into what became the province’s largest and deadliest personal care home outbreak.
Maples care home not prepared for precipitous loss in staff during crisis in November, report says
A Winnipeg care home where ambulances were called as residents lay dying amid a COVID-19 outbreak in November was not adequately prepared for staff shortages during the pandemic, an external reviewer says.
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Some staff brought in during outbreak s first 10 days weren t trained for the job, external probe finds
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Posted: Feb 04, 2021 10:38 AM CT | Last Updated: February 5
The outside of the Maples Long Term Care Home is pictured in this file photo. An investigation into the facility was started after paramedics were called to care for residents in November.(Lyzaville Sale/CBC)