Etiket: CHSLD
CHSLD death investigation | Risks for long-term care settings known as of February
In its first analyzes carried out in February 2020 on COVID-19, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) considered that the probability of the virus attacking long-term care…
Marguerite Blais will not testify before the coroner in the CHSLD investigation
Marguerite Blais will not ultimately have to testify before the coroner responsible for shedding light on the deaths that occurred in CHSLDs during the first wave of COVID-19. The Coroner’s…
CHSLD death investigation | Marguerite Blais will not testify
On sick leave since the end of October for an indefinite period, the Minister responsible for Seniors, Marguerite Blais, will not ultimately be called to testify at the coroner’s public…
Coroner’s inquest into CHSLD deaths | INSPQ continues to ignore aerosol transmission, expert says
Even if the transmission by inhalation of COVID-19 has been recognized by various authorities, the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ) still does not take it into account…
Coroner’s inquest into CHSLD deaths | The lack of doctors deplored
The lack of personnel, but especially of doctors, in CHSLDs during the first wave of COVID-19 adversely affected the quality of care offered to seniors at the end of their…
Investigation into CHSLD deaths | “We paid very little attention to these thousands of deaths”
About 10% of patients in CHSLDs and nursing homes for the elderly died during the first wave of COVID-19 in Quebec, in the spring of 2020. A real “massacre” which…
Public inquiry into the CHSLD Herron | “I should have called the police on March 29”
The CEO of the CIUSSS-de-l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal believes that she should have called the police the evening when 140 seniors were discovered in appalling conditions at the CHSLD Herron, rather than 13…
CHSLD Herron: it exceeded “what is humanly acceptable”, says the coroner
The hearings of the coroner on the CHSLD Herron made it possible to hear things which “go beyond what is humanly acceptable in a society like ours”. It is with…
CHSLD Herron: the complaints commissioner felt like “a necessary evil”
The former complaints commissioner at CHSLD Herron felt that she was “a necessary evil”, that she was in Herron because there was an obligation in this regard on the part…