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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It was the fax that changed everything. I ll never forget that gut-wrenching feeling when the case came back positive, says River East Personal Care Home administrator Kim Rohm, thinking back to Nov. 12. We were surprised.
A couple of days earlier, one of the 120 residents experiencing possible symptoms of COVID-19 was tested. The symptoms disappeared the next day.
Then the fax arrived. We now had COVID in our building, Rohm says. The second case came shortly after. Then it ramped up quickly. I ll never forget that gut-wrenching feeling when the case came back positive, says River East Personal Care Home administrator Kim Rohm, thinking back to Nov. 12. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
It made the lack of additional funding for these facilities in Wednesday’s budget shocking.
For a document titled
Protecting Manitobans, Budget 2021, the province seems to have forgotten about the most vulnerable of our population.
This was an opportunity to cement the promise of the implementation of the 17 recommendations made by the report several of which called for more funding and more staffing.
To be fair, the budget does denote an increase of $9.3 million of funding to go to the increased operational costs for two facility expansions in Steinbach and Carman. But that eats up the lion’s share of the $10.1 million increase in funding to long-term care services.
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An organization in Manitoba is looking for public input to thank the staff at care homes with their Unsung Heroes Campaign.
The Executive Director of The Long Term and Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, Jan Legeros and Executive Director of the Manitoba Association of Seniors Centers, Connie Newman, are the ones who came up with the Unsung Heroes Campaign.
Saying “thank you” is such a Canadian thing. The running joke from American television is that Canadians are so nice and polite; but despite this, we as Canadians and Manitobans have forgotten to thank those who are dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on front-line workers. Long Term Care residence staff have been overlooked. Media outlets have been reporting on deaths in care homes from COVID, but have failed to look at the impact COVID is actually having on frontline workers.