“They should have been applying a formula (for #LTCH fees for Vets) that was based on territorial expense.

Instead, they neglected that,” said Ruby.

“That resulted in overcharges and they were fairly significant overcharges for individual veterans.”

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Government seeks to retroactively change law, potentially avoiding paying veterans over federal error | CBC News The Carney government’s budget legislation contains an amendment that lawyers representing veterans say is a bid to cover up a decades-long error that led to overcharging for long-term care.

Disgraceful, shameless Mark Carney and his Liberal government Cheats Canadian Veterans on Long Term Care Home fees

To compound DECADES OF past conservative & liberal government cheating Veterans on #LTCH fees

Call your MP and demand they stop cheating veterans

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missing showers, eating meals alone and reporting missed medications after the province ended pandemic-era pay supplements to cover overtime and contract workers. Operators warn that, without intervention, hundreds of beds could close over the next year, leaving seniors stuck in hospitals or unsafe situations at home as wait lists for care homes balloon. “We’ve been relying on funding which is now being taken away on the expectation that we’re in the same situation we were prepandemic – and we’re not,” said Rob Gillis, the chief executive officer of Haro Park Centre, which provides long-term care, assisted living and independent housing in Vancouver. The province introduced temporary funding during the pandemic to help publicly subsidized long-term care and assisted living facilities cover overtime and agency staffing. That support ended on Oct. 31. A separate funding stream to support visits to care homes with COVID-19 testing and enhanced cleaning ended April 30. And another to level wages for workers across public, private and nonprofit sectors is set to expire at year-end. Overtime continues to be funded at government owned and operated facilities.

Heartless corporatist #bcndp government’s war on the most vulnerable people in society seniors in long-term care homes

“COVID-era money for B.C. long-term care aides runs out”

#LTCH residents miss medications, showers, eating meals alone, b/c lack of $ for staff

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Guidelines for Preventing Respiratory Illness in Older Adults in Long-Term Care – SPOR Evidence Alliance

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...and the aim was to identify infection protection and control recommendations from published CPGs for adults aged 60 years and older in long-term care settings.

Visit the link to see the pre-print, the report and related projects!

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#RespiratoryTherapy #CPGs #IPAC #LTCH

(3/4) Our goal is to work with shelter and long-term care home (LTCH) partners to co-develop & pilot a #LTCH model to transition these individuals from shelters to LTCH while receiving tailored #geriatric care, and to evaluate impact on outcomes that are important to older adults.

People are wait up to a year and a half to get into #LTCH because #bcndp refuses to properly invest in govt run LTCH

AND their anti science #FreedomToInfect maskless disease spreading policies killing and disabling our most vulnerable seniors & mass disabling our HCW via long covid

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The team then provided suggestions on best practices to integrate into LTCHs to potentially improve resident care. The project included a survey and interviews with #LTCH managers across Canada to identify these innovative models of care & understand their impact on residents.

B.C.’s seniors advocate says shortage of care aides due to low wages, not supply | Globalnews.ca "Maybe they'd have better success in getting a care aide if they paid the wage rate they were funded to pay," said Isobel Mackenzie.

B.C.’s seniors advocate says shortage of care aides due to low wages, not supply

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Deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreading at ‘alarming rate,’ CDC warns - National | Globalnews.ca A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.

Terrifying

The fungus Candida auris can also spread from person to person and survive on surfaces like bedrails, doorknobs and medical equipment, potentially lasting for weeks. And many cleaners don’t kill it

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#LTCH

Deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreading at ‘alarming rate,’ CDC warns - National | Globalnews.ca A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.

Even when Candida auris patients survive, they can remain colonized with the fungus for years after treatment and potentially pass it along unsuspectingly.
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Deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreading at ‘alarming rate,’ CDC warns - National | Globalnews.ca A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.

“CDC has deemed C. auris as an urgent AR [antimicrobial resistance] threat, because it is often resistant to multiple antifungal drugs, spreads easily in healthcare facilities, and can cause severe infections with high death rates,” the statement read.

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Deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreading at ‘alarming rate,’ CDC warns - National | Globalnews.ca A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.

A fungal superbug Candida auris spreading through hospitals & #LTCH at an “alarming rate

CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat

Not only is highly resistant to multiple antifungal drugs but also can withstand common hospital disinfectants.

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Covid19 airborne infection probability estimated by using indoor carbon dioxide. The green line is N 95 mask which is what should be used for Covid because Covid is aerosol spread and leaky masks let aerosol through The orange line is the unsafe leaky surgical mask the top line is no mask at all.

AND sociopathic PHOs who didn't require Mandatory #N95Masks by HCW at #LTCH & didn't test staff daily.

But Canada had one of highest long-term care mortality rates of any comparable G10 country

Overcrowding & problems with staffing contributed to the excess deaths

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FINALLY! Dr. Avoid Helping Henry, BC's Mask Stigmatizing Public Corporate Profits Officer who I've never seen wearing a N95 during the pandemic, does what she should have never removed.

Does a BC wide #MaskMandate for hospitals, clinics & #LTCH

Wear an #N95Mask Not a leaky surgical

#bcpoli

Just In: ( OTC: #LTCH ) Latch Completes Restatement of Previously Issued Financial Statements and Files 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K

#StockMarket #News

Ottawa care home accused of neglecting hygiene for residents Villa Marconi health workers say they have resorted to washing residents with pillowcases and torn bedding amid supply shortages.

Ford gov’t failing again in oversight of LTCH’s #LTCH #neglect #seniors @drvivians.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Niece of dementia patient who was found dead asks how he was able to leave Christian Dube was able to make it past three potential barriers and travel roughly 15 kilometres to a Langford trailer park where he was later found dead outdoors of severe hypothermia

How BC #LTCH protected secure dementia ward so patients don’t wander out & die

“For the front door, there’s a note above the keypad at the door with the unlock code and instructions written on it.

After 4 p.m., the door is not physically guarded”

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Niece of dementia patient who was found dead asks how he was able to leave Christian Dube was able to make it past three potential barriers and travel roughly 15 kilometres to a Langford trailer park where he was later found dead outdoors of severe hypothermia

Dube said her uncle should have been blocked by 3 levels of ­security — a keypad-controlled locked door on his special unit, an elevator keypad, and a keypad-controlled lock at the front door, an entrance that should be staffed 24/7 but isn’t. #LTCH

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Special forces tracked former soldier’s social media, shared private info without consent Canadian special forces collected retired colonel Daniel Abboud's posts in an attempt to strip him of his access-to-information rights.

I don't think #BLM are going to protest in #LTCH

CAF officers compiled info on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings & BLM leaders. Senior military officers claimed data was needed to ensure success of CAF mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID
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