The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. On Friday, Premier Iain Rankin announced plans to spend $96.5 million to renovate 17 long-term care facilities across the province and add 264 new nursing home beds in the long-term care homes in Nova Scotia Health’s Central […]
Eldercare advocacy groups and unions join forces to press for more nursing home funding
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For the first time in Nova Scotia, two eldercare advocacy groups have joined forces with unionized healthcare workers to push the provincial government to address chronic labour shortages and underfunding affecting thousands of seniors requiring nursing home care. Below is the coalition’s call to action: […]
Province insists nursing homes must admit more residents
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Health minister Randy Delorey told reporters after a cabinet meeting yesterday that it is unacceptable for long-term care homes to maintain more than a 3% vacancy rate when the wait list for care has ballooned to over 1,500 elderly people, many of whom are taking […]
Today’s forecast: power outages and falling cranes
Morning File, Tuesday, September 22, 2020
News 1. Weather There will be weather this afternoon, and then again Wednesday morning. It won’t be as bad as it could be, but will still be plenty powerful. As someone once said: charge your devices and order Chinese food. (Copy link for this item) 2. Expert: GW was not an informant “On Monday, Judge […]
Two reports detail problems at Nova Scotia nursing homes that resulted in mass COVID-19 deaths
But while the recommendations in the Northwood report are public, the findings are not.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. COVID-19’s remorseless advance through the Northwood facility in Halifax this spring caused 53 deaths, and exposed gaps in a system which is supposed to protect our most vulnerable citizens. In the wake of those events, the province will spend $26 million over the next year, […]
On Monday, Health Minister Randy Delorey will…
Well... Delorey 'may' unveil some part of some pre-selected, non-binding recommendations from a secret, penalty-of-six-months-in-prison-for-talking-about review his government-commissioned into the deaths of 53 residents at Northwood this spring. The government's selective secrecy is deliberate, and its purpose is obvious.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On Monday, September 21, 2020, Health Minister Randy Delorey will … Well, he may unveil some part of some pre-selected, non-binding recommendations from a secret, penalty-of-six-months-in-prison-for-talking-about review his government-commissioned into the deaths of 53 residents at Northwood this spring. Some part? Delorey received the actual […]
Were it not for COVID, “we probably would have got by for hundreds of years” with double rooms in nursing homes: deputy minister
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The legislature’s Health Committee met yesterday for the first time in six months to talk about the government’s response to the pandemic and future preparedness. “All in all, we have fared well,” said Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, pointing to just a […]
Documents show horrors at Northwood during COVID outbreak
Residents "likely haven’t had a bath in a week as their hair is all greasy. They often wet but do not get changed." And residents who had tested positive roamed around among residents who were presumed negative.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a report released Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU) chronicles what it’s calling “government neglect and delay” that contributed to the deaths of 53 seniors at Northwood’s Halifax campus during the COVID-19 outbreak. The 23-page ‘Neglecting Northwood’ report was written using Nova […]
Premier resists renewed calls for public inquiry into Northwood deaths after NSGEU president bails on review
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Despite renewed calls from the president of the largest public-sector union in the province, Premier Stephen McNeil is not prepared to call a public inquiry into the deaths of 53 residents at the Northwood nursing home. But in a new development, the Premier says he […]
Nursing home operators go public with call for better paid staff, updated facilities
Starting today, Public Health is allowing for contact between visitors and residents, but some nursing homes have lost insurance coverage and so aren't allowing that visitation.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “Enough Talk” is the title of a nine-page statement released Tuesday by a group representing the majority (83%) of 96 licensed nursing homes in the province. The Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA) is fed up with government inaction when it comes to long-identified […]
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