Tag: nursing homes
99% of Ontario nursing homes now have air conditioning in residents’...
Nearly 99 per cent of nursing homes in Ontario now have air conditioning in residents’ rooms, almost a year after the province set a...
Long term care advocates raise concern over transferring elderly hospital patients...
Hospitals in Ontario are now able to transfer patients waiting for a long-term care space to any nursing home without their consent. In Hamilton,...
Ontario nursing homes badly prepared for COVID-19 pandemic: auditor general
Ontario's auditor general says long-term care homes were poorly prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Auditor Bonnie Lysyk says both the provincial government and the nursing-home...
Soldiers no longer working in Ontario long-term care homes
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces brought in to help manage Ontario nursing homes will be returning home Friday.
They were first deployed in April...
Nursing home liabilities
While numbers in the general population seem to be levelling out, COVID-19 cases are surging in long-term care facilities. What's their liability? Nainesh Kotak...
More than 100 new cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton
In Hamilton, we're learning the city will be testing all staff and residents at nursing homes including Heritage Green, where there's currently an outbreak....