Alberta premier says province paid $25K hotel bill from social services provider

The ministers of social services and health say they’re looking into Contentment Social Services, an unfamiliar agency that apparently transferred a patient from an Edmonton hospital to a Leduc motel for care. Kabi Moulitharan reports.says the province has stepped in to pay an outstanding $25,000 bill to a hotel where a social services agency dispatched patients in post-hospital recovery.

CBC has reported a stroke patient was recently discharged from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton and taken to a Travelodge south of the city that couldn’t accommodate his wheelchair and where he was fed fast food and no one properly cared for his hygiene. Norton Smith, president of Contentment, told CBC hotel rooms were a temporary measure in an overburdened system.

On Thursday, Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said Contentment would be struck from a roster of support agencies offered to patients upon discharge from hospital.The Opposition NDP said in a release Friday that the United Conservative Party government needs to take more accountability.

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