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July 25, 2022Inspection Reports: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Mary Crea-Arsenio, Andrea Baumann and Victoria Smith (Global Health Office, McMaster University) analyzed reports of neglect in LTC homes from 2019 to 2020. Thematic analysis revealed four areas of neglect: (1) failure to provide treatment; (2) failure to provide care; (3) failure to attend to or assist residents; and (4) failure to investigate allegations. Read their findings and conclusions in this special issue of Healthcare Policy.
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Inspection Reports: The Canary in the Coal Mine
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Ontario long-term care home ordered to find new management after failing to comply with inspection notices
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In Canada, nurses have known about the chronic shortage of nurses for years; the pandemic has just opened the floodgates. For the authors, the current nursing crisis and the accompanying response have led to flashbacks of the early 2000s, when extensive advocacy work took place to prevent a looming nursing crisis. In the key reports reviewed in this paper, the statement "lack of respect for nursing" has echoed over and over and over again and continues to be heard today throughout soci [...]
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