Posted: Dec 29, 2020 6:43 PM ET | Last Updated: December 30, 2020
Jessica Wong, a protest organizer, said demonstrators gathered outside Tendercare Living Centre on Tuesday to draw attention to the plight of the long-term care home. The province needs to take more action to help the home, she says.(Talia Ricci/CBC)
Dozens of people demonstrated outside a Scarborough long-term care home on Tuesday to demand that the province take more action to help the facility as it fights to contain a COVID-19 outbreak.
Tendercare Living Centre has lost 48 residents to COVID-19 as of Monday, according to North York General Hospital (NYGH), which has been asked by the Ontario government to help manage the home temporarily. Tendercare has 254 beds.
New hiring, air-quality improvements pending
Author of the article: Monte Sonnenberg
Publishing date: Dec 27, 2020 • December 27, 2020 • 2 minute read • At its final meeting of 2020, Norfolk council approved new hiring for Norview Lodge in Simcoe as part of a provincial mandate to improve front-line care. Norfolk will also tap a federal infrastructure program in 2021 for upgrades to Norview’s heating-ventilation-air-conditioning system. – Monte Sonnenberg
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Norfolk County is acting on the provincial government’s directive to improve the standard of care in homes for the aged.
At its final meeting of 2020, Norfolk council ratified the hiring of eight full-time staff to increase the level of care at Norview Lodge in Simcoe.
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Sandra Kang is fighting to salvage all the things at her 103-year-old grandfather’s nursing home that bring him comfort: the Korean corn tea served at every meal, music from his East Asian country, personal support workers who speak his mother tongue.
Jong Kil Kim moved to the Rose of Sharon Korean Long Term Care home in Toronto two years ago, when his Alzheimer’s disease and dementia made it difficult to look after himself and speak in English.
But his nursing home, the only one in Canada exclusively dedicated to serving the Korean community, is facing an uncertain future. The Ontario government is reviewing a proposal to transfer its operating licence to a for-profit, chain operator with no ties to the Korean-Canadian community.