Tag: long-term care homes
over 1 year ago
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Ontarians 18 and up can get the Omicron-specific booster shot as of Sept. 26, province says

Dr. Kieran Moore, the chief medical officer of health, made the announcement Monday.

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over 2 years ago
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Health-care and nursing home workers could face vaccine mandate, says Ontario’s chief medical off...

Dr. Kieran Moore took aim at long-term-care homes where unvaccinated workers have been blamed for bringing infections...

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about 3 years ago
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Tale of two vaccine roll-outs: COVID-19 numbers plummet in Toronto’s long-term-care homes, while ...

In the 10 homes the city of Toronto runs, there was just a single staff person that tested positive recently and zero...

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over 3 years ago
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Ottawa willing to strike separate deals with provinces to address problems in long-term care, sen...

Ottawa foresees working with a kind of “coalition of willing provinces in the beginning” to begin the work of buildin...

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over 3 years ago
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Ontario’s long-term care is overdue for change. So what needs to happen?

The Star asked residents’ family members, health-care workers, lobbyists and thought leaders what one thing is that t...

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over 3 years ago
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Staffing model the ‘secret sauce’ for Toronto’s city-run long-term-care homes battling the second...

So far, Toronto’s 10 city-run homes are faring far better during the second wave of COVID-19 than their for-profit an...

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over 3 years ago
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Families struggle as deadly COVID-19 outbreak overruns long-term care home in Scarborough

In the past 10 days, 33 residents at Tendercare Living Centre, just off Victoria Park Ave., have died of COVID-19, an...

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almost 4 years ago
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CEO of Sienna Senior Living, a private long-term-care company hit hard by COVID-19, resigns

Lois Cormack cited personal reasons for her departure. The company has seen more than 290 deaths at its Ontario homes.

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