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For far too many seniors in Ontario, the pandemic proved to be a death sentence.
The virulent COVID virus has cost 3,748 seniors their lives one of them my sweet, gentle dad, who succumbed to the virus, along with 14 others, when it ripped through his dementia facility during October’s second wave.
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Both my brother and I got to bid him a tearful goodbye in his hospital room. Others were not so lucky, forced to forever live with the reality that their loved ones died alone, due to strict visitation rules in some hospitals and long-term care (LTC) homes.
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Ptasznik feels their behaviour is “outrageous” and the RHRA lawyer is just “looking for roadblocks.”
Cohen’s lawyer, Robert Karrass, insisted in January that the December RHRA report had “nothing to do with a death at L’Chaim” and there was no “inaction or pattern of inaction” that jeopardized the resident’s health.
He said this week there is no appeal process available for his client.
It should be noted that three of the eight current board members come from for-profit retirement home corporations perhaps part of the reason Ontario’s Auditor General found in a pointed December 2020 audit that the RHRA might be placing the financial welfare of operators ahead of the authority’s mandate to protect residents.
Police say they are investigating reports that door handles were removed from the suites of residents at a retirement home in Courtice, Ont., amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police say they are investigating reports that door handles were removed from the suites of residents at a retirement home in Courtice, Ont., amid the COVID-19 pandemic.