Province releases Maples Long Term Care Home review recommendation implementation plan
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 03/07/2021 at 10:32 am
The Manitoba government has created a team to implement the recommendations of the review of the COVID-19 outbreak at Maples Long Term Care Home and has released a draft plan outlining how the critical work of implementing these changes will occur in the months ahead to strengthen the long-term care sector in Manitoba.
“Once we accepted the report’s findings and committed to implementing the recommendations, we moved quickly to put a team in place to develop a response plan within 30 days to outline how the recommendations will be implemented,” said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. “While some work had already begun at the Maples site and within the Winnipeg health region, this plan sets out how we will ensure the recommendations are implemented at all personal care home sites in Manitoba, and ensure they ar
New hemodialysis unit opens at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach New hemodialysis unit at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg.
Manitoba is marking the launch of Kidney Health Month with the opening of a new hemodialysis unit at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Winnipeg, further bolstering renal care for patients who require regular critical life-saving dialysis services.
“The new hemodialysis unit will allow HSC Winnipeg to accommodate a growing number of individuals receiving treatment for the first time, as well as patients from across the province who have been hospitalized, are receiving specialist care or need ongoing dialysis treatments,” said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. “It further strengthens the size and scope of renal services offered at our provincial hospital, allowing us to meet the current and future needs of dialysis patients in Manitoba.”
Manitoba reached a testing milestone this past weekend and has completed 500,000 tests for COVID-19 at provincial sites. The province s testing strategy aims to protect Manitobans by quickly identifying positives and slowing the spread of the virus.
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Personal care home staff with no symptoms of COVID-19 could soon get testing anyway following the success of a recent pilot project.
Personal care home staff with no symptoms of COVID-19 could soon get testing anyway following the success of a recent pilot project.
The pilot project rapid testing for the novel coronavirus was completed over four weeks starting in mid-December at three personal care homes. It will now be offered to other facilities in the province. So far almost 40 care homes have taken up the offer. The fast identification of a positive test result enables the quickest possible action for the facility and the province, said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson in a statement on Monday.
Access to asymptomatic COVID-19 testing to expand to more personal care homes
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson at a recent COVID-19 briefing.
The province is expanding access to rapid COVID-19 testing for personal care home (PCH) staff, following the successful trial of rapid testing for asymptomatic staff (staff with no symptoms of COVID-19) at three Manitoba personal care homes.
“The fast identification of a positive test result enables the quickest possible action for the facility and the province,” said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson. “Using our available complement of rapid tests to further expand access to this testing will increase the safety of residents and staff in personal care homes.”