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Multiple private long-term care homes on P.E.I. have been failing to meet the required inspection standards. But the Community Care Facility and Nursing Home Board says closing a home is a last resort, given current waitlists and the already-strained system.

65 qualified health workers drawn from Kakuma Refugee Camp and Nairobi were offered job opportunities in Canada.

Plans are underway to make sure the health-care workers being recruited from Kenya will have everything they need to start their new lives in Nova Scotia.

The province has decided to turn over a long-term care home in Shelburne to the private company MacLeod Group.