Ontario Nursing Home Deaths

• Potential conflict of interest involving Ontario nursing home inspectors a ‘big problem’: experts

  Global News has identified at least 18 Ontario long-term care inspectors who have previously worked for some of the country's largest for-profit nursing homes.

  Canada

  Dec 10, 2020
  
• 271 coronavirus deaths could have been prevented by removing 4-bed care rooms, study suggests

  Nearly 1,000 infections and hundreds of deaths from COVID-19 could have been prevented at Ontario nursing homes if residents were placed in two-bed rooms instead of four-bed rooms.

  Canada

  Jun 26, 2020
  
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• Ontario to hold public inquiry into Elizabeth Wettlaufer nursing home murders

  The Ontario government announced Monday it is moving to appoint a commissioner to lead a public inquiry into the circumstances of the murders of eight seniors in Ontario long-term

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  Jun 26, 2017
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• Saskatchewan woman briefly dated serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer

  “I think I dated a serial killer”: Saskatchewan woman dated serial senior killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer.

  Crime

  Jun 2, 2017
• ‘I would feel that red surge’: Transcript of Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s confession released

  Family and friends of Wettlaufer's victims and members of the media watched the full police interview with Wettlaufer, which lasted for two hours and nine minutes. The interview took place on Oct. 5, after she was discharged from CAMH in Toronto where she was seeking mental health treatment.

  Crime

  Jun 2, 2017
• Family and friends of Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s victims react to guilty plea

  It was an emotional day in court for family and friends of the victims of Elizabeth Wettlaufer, the former Ontario nurse who pleaded guilty Thursday to the first-degree murder of eight seniors.

  Crime

  Jun 1, 2017
• Elizabeth Wettlaufer a rare kind of Canadian killer: criminologist

  A Western University criminology professor says Elizabeth Wettlaufer fits the description of a serial killer.

  Crime

  Jun 1, 2017
• Elizabeth Wettlaufer pleads guilty to all charges in killing of 8 seniors

  A former Ontario nurse accused of killing eight seniors in her care has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in their deaths.

  Crime

  Jun 1, 2017
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• Elizabeth Wettlaufer: Ontario nursing home cited for dozens of ‘medication incidents’

  Inspection reports show an Ontario long-term care home where a former nurse is accused of killing seven seniors was taken to task by the province for dozens of "medication incidents" just before it was ordered to stop admitting patients.

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  Feb 10, 2017
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• Ontario halts admissions to Woodstock, Ont., nursing home at centre of murder probe

  A long-term care home in Ontario where a nurse is accused of killing seven patients has been order by the provincial government to temporarily cease admitting new patients.

  Canada

  Jan 27, 2017