Tag: ltc
over 2 years ago
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Ontario weighs whether to follow U.S. in cutting COVID quarantine period

Province’s top doctor postpones news conference to consider the new U.S. guidelines, which came into effect south of ...

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almost 3 years ago
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Worker at Brampton long-term-care home charged after 11 residents given medicine improperly

Police discovered that 11 residents were affected due to this improper dosing of prescribed medication.

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about 3 years ago
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‘Next time, Ontario must be ready,’ concludes Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission

Premier Doug Ford’s government was ‘slow’ to react to the threat of COVID-19, and this condemned thousands of vulnera...

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about 3 years ago
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Opinion | The Ford government ‘didn’t start the fire’ but spread lots of gasoline around

On Wednesday alone, ministers blamed others when it comes to paid sick days, and for the horrors of long-term care. E...

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about 3 years ago
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Advocates urge Ontario human rights chief to probe ‘discrimination’ denying hospital care to long...

“You spend your whole life working, paying taxes, helping to build the country and then you get COVID and there is no...

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about 3 years ago
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Opinion | Merrilee Fullerton failed Ontarians in long-term-care. But if you’re pointing fingers m...

Long-term-care minister is trying to shift blame for COVID’s deadly toll in Ontario. In fairness, Doug Ford, David Wi...

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about 3 years ago
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For-profit nursing homes in Ontario say ownership has nothing to do with their higher COVID-19 de...

A new Star investigation finds for-profit care homes in the province have worse outcomes than non-profit and municipa...

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about 3 years ago
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Ontario administers highest number of vaccine doses in a day, but variant cases continue to trend...

The province is reporting another 1,258 COVID-19 cases and 28 more deaths, according to its latest report released Fr...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Of residents in long-term care homes, I say ‘Get them out!’

The iron ring around long-term care homes that Premier Doug Ford had vowed is actually more steel bars of bureaucrati...

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over 3 years ago
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Ontario moves target for 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccines in LTC homes to Feb. 5, delays shots for ...

The Feb. 5 goal is subject to upcoming deliveries from Pfizer, given that a shipment of 80,000 doses due this week wa...

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over 3 years ago
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A long-term-care PSW needs to work 50 hours a week or more to afford the cost of living in Toront...

After tax and deductions, PSWs working in long-term care are short over $10,000 of what it costs to live in Toronto.

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over 3 years ago
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‘They care.’ NFL star Laurent Duvernay-Tardif returns to the COVID front lines with deep respect ...

Following some time off to work on his charity and master’s studies, the Lou Marsh Trophy co-winner and doctor-in-tra...

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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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Opinion | When in God’s name will we cease failing the elderly and frail in long-term-care homes?

‘These old people who are sick, who are dying, we can’t just forget about them.’

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over 3 years ago
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Doug Ford commits $1.9 billion a year to give nursing-home residents more hands-on care

Ontario has put a price tag on its promise to dramatically improve staffing in nursing homes so residents can get an ...

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over 3 years ago
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For-profit long-term-care homes once again seeing significantly worse outcomes in Ontario’s secon...

Star’s analysis shows for-profit homes have struggled to stop spread of virus; residents there have been more than th...

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about 4 years ago
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Patients, families complain about visitation restrictions imposed by hospitals and long-term care...

Since early March, more than one third of all complaints to the province’s Patient Ombudsman have been related to the...

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about 4 years ago
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Seven Oaks, where 16 have died in the COVID-19 crisis, had infection control problems flagged by ...

Expert cautions against drawing a “straight line” from the inspection findings to the COVID-19 outbreak inside the ho...

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