Winnipeg hospital updates public on post-ER deaths

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg health authority issued an update on critical incidents related to the Grace emergency department on Thursday afternoon.

Global News live streamed the 2 p.m. news conference on this page.

In separate incidents just over a month ago, two men died outside their homes after being discharged from the Grace Hospital emergency and taken home in cabs.

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David Silver was found frozen outside his home about 14 hours after he was released from the hospital in the middle of the night. The other man was found outside his home on Arlington Street.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority will also release the CIHI Emergency Department Trends Report at the same news conference, which will be held by health authority president and CEO Arlene Wilgosh and Lori Lamont, vice-president, interprofessional practice, and chief nursing officer for the WRHA.