Etiket: CHSLDs
public CHSLDs without power for 72 hours | Quebec has learned nothing from the pandemic, deplores the opposition
Quebec has learned nothing from the lessons of the pandemic on the vulnerability of its CHSLDs, judges the opposition. Two of these establishments had to wait more than three days…
Massive failures | Public CHSLDs without power for more than three days
Residents of government health facilities had to wait more than three days in the dark of their rooms before being reconnected to the Hydro-Québec network following the freezing rain storm…
Security will be increased in the CHSLDs of Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean
Additional surveillance cameras will be installed in the 16 CHSLDs in Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean to increase security. Health authorities will also set up a security operations center to be located…
The consequences of waiting for rooms in CHSLDs are getting worse
A woman from Magog launched a real cry from the heart Thursday since her husband suffering from cognitive disorders has been waiting for a place in a CHSLD since he…
Experts recommend at least four hours of direct care per day in CHSLDs
The Liberal government must enshrine new national standards for long-term care homes in law if it is to fulfill a commitment from the NDP’s Trust and Support Agreement, the New…
These sweet musical moments that SAMS organizes in CHSLDs
In the first row of spectators at the flute, keyboard and voice concert given by Valérie Belzile and Vincent Hamel, at the CHSLD Grace Dart, in Montreal, an old lady,…
Quality of care in CHSLDs | Two class actions brought against the government
Two separate class actions brought by people living in CHSLDs and their families and attacking the poor quality of care given before, during and after the pandemic can continue to…
Delays in CHSLDs: more than 4,000 are waiting for their place
The number of seniors waiting for a place in a CHSLD has reached an all-time high in three years in Quebec, putting a lot of pressure on caregivers who sometimes…
Concerns in Ontario about the transfer of French-speaking patients to CHSLDs
Some health care institutions serving the Francophone community in Ontario have concerns about the early adoption of a bill allowing patients who no longer require hospital care to be temporarily…
Air conditioning in CHSLDs: The network “ready to face heat waves”
The network is “ready to face the heat waves of the summer of 2022”, say the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) and the office of Minister Marguerite Blais,…
Air conditioning in CHSLDs: The network “ready to face heat waves”
The network is “ready to face the heat waves of the summer of 2022”, say the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) and the office of Minister Marguerite Blais,…
Air conditioners, a rare commodity in CHSLDs
While it is theoretically possible for each resident of long-term care accommodation centers (CHSLDs) who requests it to have an air conditioner in their room, there are still many who…
Deaths in CHSLDs during the pandemic | Family physicians ‘shocked and amazed’ by Coroner Kamel’s report
Passages from the recent report by coroner Géhane Kamel on deaths that occurred in CHSLDs during the first wave of the pandemic unfairly criticize medical practice in these establishments according…
Private CHSLDs must be contracted now, pleads an association of residences
The Association of Private Long-Term Institutions of Quebec (AELDPQ) deplores that the Legault government has still not announced the agreement of all private CHSLDs not under agreement, as it had…
Report on deaths in CHSLDs | A public inquiry into the management of the pandemic still in order, according to QS
A public and independent inquiry shedding light on the entire management of the pandemic is always “relevant”, maintains Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, even if the recommendations of coroner Géhane Kamel do not…
Coroner Kamel’s report on CHSLDs: voluntary emergency civic service to avoid another disaster
One of Coroner Kamel’s proposals on the drama experienced in CHSLDs is to create voluntary civic service. I made this proposal in May 2020, exactly two years ago. I publish…
“We need more accountability” in CHSLDs, says François Legault
The day after the publication of an imposing investigative report of nearly 200 pages on the carnage that occurred in CHSLDs at the start of the pandemic, Prime Minister François…
Coroner Kamel’s report on CHSLDs | “We need more accountability”, says François Legault
(Laval) The day after the publication of an imposing investigative report of nearly 200 pages on the carnage that occurred in CHSLDs at the start of the pandemic, Prime Minister…
Coroner Géhane Kamel advocates the end of private CHSLDs
The pandemic has shown that the model of fully private seniors’ centers is a thing of the past, says coroner Géhane Kamel, who is calling for the “deprivatization of the…
François Legault abandons the idea of nationalizing all private CHSLDs
Quebec abandons the idea of nationalizing all private CHSLDs. This idea, repeatedly mentioned by Prime Minister François Legault during the pandemic, in particular following the carnage that occurred at the…