The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A Halifax researcher is hoping the tragic toll COVID-19 has taken on long-term care residents provides an opportunity to address and fix long standing “fault lines” in the system. “I’m just beside myself. I think the tragedy in my mind is that this pandemic in […]
The nursing home “expert advisory panel” is prohibited from recommending radical or costly changes
When law enforcement agencies confront a potentially dangerous situation which they need to defuse quickly, they send in a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team. When governments face a potentially damaging political issue they create a panel. After the deaths of three former nursing home residents linked to badly infected bedsores, months of mounting complaints...