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Previously, residents had been limited to "essential" visitors during outbreaks a designation some families say was hard to get, since it must be approved by individual care homes. ....
B.C.’s restart plan got a thumbs up from business leaders this week but has received a fail from some seniors home residents and their families who say the four-stage plan to ease COVID-19 . . . ....
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Brenda Brophy March 08, 2021 - 6:00 AM Brenda Brophy and the dozens of people in her Facebook support group don’t want to observe a sad anniversary on March 17. That’s the date last year when most long-term care homes in B.C. were locked down because of COVID-19. At 6 p.m. on March 17, 2020 she walked out of her mother’s long-term care home as it was being locked down. Cutting off visitation rights is not uncommon in long-term care homes when there are flu or outbreaks of other illnesses. But this one was different. “My mom kept saying to me, how long is this going to go on for?” Brophy said. “I said maybe a couple of weeks. I knew that was B.S. but, in my mind, I remember thinking it would probably be four weeks because that would be two incubation periods.” ....
Joseph Nestor, 95, a resident at The Peninsula seniors residence in Sidney, has not yet received a COVID vaccine. CAROLINE NESTOR Dot Finnerty, 100, received a COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, March 1, 2021, as part of rollout to high-risk populations of seniors. BRENDA BROPHY Island Heath has been told to cancel all second-dose clinics this week, turning some into first-dose clinics, as part of an updated immunization strategy by the province to delay second doses of COVID-19 vaccine for four months. It’s a move that has some residents elated and others worried. “To be honest, I’m so damn grateful I haven’t had time to research the information Bonnie Henry is claiming,” said Victoria’s Brenda Brophy whose mother was vaccinated on Monday as part of a clinic at the University of Victoria that is completing vaccinations for people in Phase 1 and starting on people in Phase 2. ....
He called for mandatory timelines for decisions made by facility staff on requests for visits as well as for each stage of an appeals process. Care homes should also provide written reasons when visits are denied or restricted, he said. “When the stakes are high, we expect to see high standards of fairness and high standards of fairness, as a minimum, require a clear process, and if someone’s been unsuccessful, clear reasons as to why they’ve been unsuccessful in their application,” Chalke said in an interview. In January, after months of fighting for designation as an essential visitor for her 89-year-old mother in a Nanaimo seniors home, Jeanette Harper was approved but she never knew why she was first denied in June nor why she was approved last month. ....