Not much training, not much experience
In recent years, CHSLD Herron was often without a director of nursing services, and that was the case in the weeks leading up to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report. Many times, the executive director was managing the delivery of services alone, the report stated. Furthermore, management had no nursing training.
The joint committee issued 30 recommendations, including having the Health Ministry put in place regulatory mechanisms to make the presence of a nursing services director mandatory in private, non-subsidized long-term care homes.
It s also calling on the province to make it more difficult to get a permit to operate a CHSLD.