Personal Care Homes

• Manitoba proposes $5M to improve food quality in personal care homes

  In Manitoba's 2026 budget, there is a $5 million investment to ensure fresh, high-quality, and culturally appropriate foods are available for residents in personal care homes.

  Politics

  Mar 26
  
• Personal care home in Winnipeg’s Bridgwater neighbourhood a decade in the making

  According to numbers from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, there are a total of 294 people waiting for a spot in a personal care home.

  Health

  Mar 20
  
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• Opposition cabinet hounds NDP government on creation of personal care homes

  The PC shadow minister for seniors and long-term care said the creation of six PCHs had been halted in a decision by the new government. NDPs say projects are being evaluated.

  Health

  Dec 19, 2023
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• $37M going towards support for long-term care home residents in Manitoba

  'Today's agreement with Manitoba has helped address the challenges affecting long-term care homes to ensure that all seniors are treated with dignity and receive appropriate care.'

  Health

  Aug 25, 2022
• Manitoba loosening up visitation guidelines in health-care facilities

  Both fully vaccinated and unvaccinated Manitobans will soon be able to see a friend or family member in a health-care facility for a social call.

  Health

  Feb 22, 2022
• Winnipeg woman reflects on COVID-19 outbreak, death of her father one year ago

  Eddie Calisto-Tavares lost her father, Miguel Calisto, on Nov. 11, 2020, near the beginning of a devastating COVID-19 outbreak at Maples Personal Care Home.

  Health

  Nov 8, 2021
• Manitoba expands third vaccine eligibility to First Nations care homes

  The province said Monday that a third vaccine is now available for all residents and staff in personal care homes on Manitoba First Nations.

  Health

  Sep 20, 2021
• Time to give Manitoba’s vaccinated personal care home residents more freedom: daughter

  'Then drives weren't allowed and now outings of any kind aren't allowed. She can't leave the home. And so once you can't leave where you live, it starts to feel like a prison.'

  Health

  Aug 5, 2021
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• Sask. seniors, families hoping for brighter future with COVID-19 restrictions easing

  Seniors in long-term and personal care homes are among the cohort that has been the most isolated during the global pandemic.

  Health

  Jun 20, 2021
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• Visitor restrictions at Saskatchewan long-term care homes to ease on May 30

  Health officials said all residents at long-term and personal care homes in Saskatchewan will be allowed unlimited indoor visitors, but only two at a time, as of May 30.

  Canada

  May 20, 2021