Nursing home CEO and community volunteer Michelle Thompson will the PC candidate for Antigonish in the next provincial election. Thompson was chosen in a virtual Antigonish PC nomination meeting Saturday evening. Thompson has been a registered nurse for 29 years, working both on the frontlines as care provider and in leadership roles. She is currently the CEO […]
Manitobans post-pandemic priority: restaurants We appreciate the support, said Shaun Jeffrey, CEO of the Manitoba Restaurant and Foodservices Association.
Hospitality beat seniors care and health care in a poll that asked Manitobans to rate their post-pandemic priority.
Hospitality beat seniors care and health care in a poll that asked Manitobans to rate their post-pandemic priority.
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Winnipeg Free Press poll conducted by Leger found 39 per cent of Manitobans say the hospitality and tourism sector should be the government s highest priority post-pandemic.
Eighteen per cent said it should be growing the economy; 15 per cent backed investing in long term care for seniors; 11 per cent said paying down the deficit created by the pandemic; and just three per cent said health care.
Fail to see the logic in allowing care home staff to work in multiple sites: U of Manitoba prof
Personal care home staff in Manitoba can once again work at multiple sites as long as they ve received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine a move that has some researchers and unions on edge.
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As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Care home administrators and the organization that represents many such facilities in the province are trying to persuade Manitoba s vaccine task force to let the same nurses looking after residents give shots to fellow staff members.
Jan Legeros, executive director of the Long Term & Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, said the group is hearing from member facilities that between 40 to 45 per cent of care home staff have been vaccinated.