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KITCHENER A nearly $5 million influx of funding to Conestoga College is meant to help graduate up to 500 long-term care support staff. On Monday, the Minister of Long-Term Care, Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, announced the funding for the college to support a seven-week program which will begin next month. “Our government is committed to modernizing long-term care and this includes having the well-trained staff that we need to support our most vulnerable,” said Fullerton. The minister describes the program as a “micro-credential” course which includes five weeks of technical training and two weeks of on-the-job experience. Those people completing the course will be able to assist with infection prevention and control, health and safety and housekeeping. ....
E-Mail Protecting long-term care residents from outbreaks requires different infrastructure, proper staffing conditions and a culture of quality assurance, researchers have found. The experts further determined that designing smaller, more homelike spaces would minimize the spread of viruses while promoting better health and quality of life for residents. Community outbreaks and lack of personal protective equipment were the primary drivers of outbreak occurrence in long-term care homes, and the built environment was the major determinant of outbreak severity, said George Heckman, a professor in Waterloo s School of Public Health and Health Systems and Schlegel Research Chair in Geriatric Medicine with the Research Institute for Aging. ....
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