Long Term Care Covid-19

• COVID cases soaring in Canada’s LTC homes as country enters 7th wave. What can be done?

  As a seventh wave of COVID-19 creeps across the country, long-term care facilities in some provinces are seeing a major spike in outbreaks.

  Health

  Jul 17, 2022
  
• Several Canadian long-term-care companies to enforce mandatory COVID 19 shot policy

  A group of major Canadian long-term care operators will require COVID-19 vaccination for all staff this fall.

  Canada

  Aug 26, 2021
  
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• Many Canadians willing to pay more in taxes to fund changes to long-term care, poll finds

  British Columbians are the most willing to pay more, with three in five saying they are OK with a two-per-cent increase in personal taxes to fund long-term care.

  Health

  Jul 26, 2021
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• 60 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths in Interior Health were long-term care residents

  To date, 180 long-term care residents have contracted the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, as well as 60 staff members.

  Health

  Jan 10, 2021
• COVID-19: Outbreak declared at Extendicare Kawartha Lakes in Lindsay

  A resident at another long-term care home tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, marking the eighth active outbreak for the health unit.

  Health

  Dec 9, 2020
• Fear, stress factors in staffing shortages at Ontario’s long-term care homes amid COVID-19 crisis

  Experts say fatigue and stress are key factors in the unstable staffing situation in Ontario long-term care homes amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

  Health

  Nov 26, 2020
• A look at what has gone wrong in Ontario long-term care amid the coronavirus pandemic

  Long-term care deaths account for nearly two-thirds of all COVID-19-related deaths in the province.

  Health

  Nov 24, 2020
• Bill Kelly: Ontario’s long-term care residents deserve dignity and compassion

  Ontario's long-term care residents are the silent victims of not only the pandemic, but also of a woefully inadequate system that's needed fixing for years, Bill Kelly says.

  Commentary

  Oct 5, 2020
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• ‘They were supposed to keep her safe,’ says family of long-term care resident who died of COVID-19

  The family of a 75-year-old woman who died of COVID-19 wants answers after their mother became infected with the novel coronavirus at a Barrie, Ont., nursing home at the end of April.

  Health

  Sep 17, 2020
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• COVID-19 in three Manitoba care homes

  Jan Legeros, executive director of the Long Term & Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, says it was only a matter of time until COVID-19 spread to care homes, but cautioned it was to be expected amid the provincial reopening. 

  Health

  Aug 30, 2020