The mud-slinging attacks on long-term care operators seems to be reaching a peak, leaving the unstated but obvious implication that the operators of these homes and care facilities are somehow responsible for the COVID-19 deaths of thousands of elderly Canadians.
“As this COVID-19 outbreak unfolds in coming months, our government will aim to support Canadians and keep them protected. We’ve based our response on input from our world-class health professionals and authorities. We know what the science is telling us. The evidence is clear. The elderly are our greatest risk. We’ve seen the experience in Italy and Spain. We know what happened in China. In Washington State. The first long-term care death in British Columbia occurred March 8.
Did Ottawa ever consider a targeted risk-management strategy that would have saved lives? We may never know, adds Leech. When the pandemic struck, many facilities were unprepared, especially older institutions that still included rooms with four patients. The Ontario association concluded its budget submission: “Despite a well-known, evidence-based demographic surge of seniors unable to care for themselves … and massive waiting lists to enter long-term care, we spent the last decade mired in a program to rebuild or renovate homes that simply doesn’t work.
Any word on the Quebec LTC Military report yet... or are they still sanitizing it?
Your “it starts at the top” completely skipped over the owners of these LTC homes that hid PPE and won’t pay full time hours. Why were there more deaths at for profit homes than not for profit homes. Who cut inspections of these homes? That was Ford.
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