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Community Transition Unit (4B) at the VG: elderly dementia patients have no privacy, are plagued with rats and Legionnaires’ Disease, and can’t drink the water

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Conditions on the Community Transition Unit (4B) of the crumbling and leaky Centennial Building at the VG hospital in Halifax are so bad that they’ve provoked the family of an 85-year-old woman with dementia to speak out. The family’s hope is the Nova Scotia Health Authority (which operates hospitals) and the Department of Health (which…

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