Coronavirus crisis at Nova Scotia nursing home far from over

The top administrator at a Halifax nursing home besieged by one of Canada’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks concedes the crisis that has infected 316 people and killed 35 residents is far from over.

On Wednesday, the facility’s president and CEO Janet Simm said “it’ll be quite some time” before Northwood is able to overcome the crisis. More than 100 staff remain off work because of exposure to the virus or compromised health that makes them afraid to work, and the nursing home is scrambling to separate residents into private rooms – acknowledging that those shared rooms helped inflame the outbreak.

Unlike some long-term care facilities in Ontario and Quebec, the nursing home will not call on the military for help. There are enough nurses and other acute care workers able to help since the province’s hospitals have not been overrun by the virus, she said. “Hindsight would have benefited Northwood, hindsight would have benefited Nova Scotia, hindsight would have benefited the world,” she said. “This thing was in here before PPE was ever applied.”Unifor, which represents 450 workers at Northwood, says PPE was withheld in the early stages of the outbreak because the nursing home, like many others in the country, was concerned about its supply running out.

Infected residents should have also been separated more quickly from the rest of Northwood’s population, Ms. MacNeil added, although she acknowledges the nursing home didn’t initially have any place to put them. Healthy residents have since been moved into a hotel.

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