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91-year-old woman dies after being found in frigid temperatures outside LTC home.

EXTENDICARE CEDARS VILLA. Calgary police Officers were called to Extendicare Cedars Villa, in the 3300 block of Eighth Avenue SW in the community of Spruce Cliff, at around 4:45 a.m. Staff called police to report a missing person after realizing tha senior resident was not in her room during nightly rounds at the care home. […]

Covid-19: Edmonton General Now Alberta’s Deadliest Outbreak

Edmonton general Long Term Care, Alberta’s second deadliest outbreak with 33 deaths, 174 cases ARE STAFF, WHO TEST POSITIVE CARING FOR PATIENTS? An outbreak at Edmonton General Continuing Care Centre has become the second- deadliest in the province since the pandemic began, says Alberta Health. Thirty-three patients have died and there have been 174 positive […]

Rivera Clove Lakes Nursing Home – 40 dead

RIVERA CLOVE LAKES NURSING HOME 40 DEAD, 40 LAID OFF IN NURSING HOME CRISIS. On a recent morning in Staten Island, the quiet at Clove Lakes Health Care & Rehabilitation Center was unsettling. Employees in sanitary gowns and face masks moved through a brightly decorated front area devoid of residents or chatter. Six months ago, […]

Good Samaritan Southgate Centre deaths

23 residents at Edmonton’s GOOD SAMARITAN SOUTHGATE CARE CENTRE have died related to the facility’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak at Good Samaritan is now considered the deadliest care centre outbreak in Alberta. As of Sunday, there are 43 active cases of COVID-19 in residents, as well as 24 active cases in employees. Fifteen residents […]

Sofia Sharin Hafiz, theft thousands of dollars

Sofia Sharin Hafiz, of Edmonton,A 53-year-old health-care aide has been charged with theft after two seniors were allegedly defrauded of almost $560,000, Edmonton police said Wednesday in a news release. A 75-year-old man contacted police in December 2018 to report an alleged fraud of close to $160,000 at the hands of his health-care aide, police […]

Gross Nursing Home Negligence

>MONTREAL — Thirty-one people were found dead in less than a month at a nursing home in Montreal, at least five confirmed to have coronavirus — a powerful Canadian emblem of how nursing homes are among the places hardest hit by the pandemic. In the United States 17 bodies were recently discovered at a long-term […]

Murray Billett

October 5, 2009 Via Facsimile 780 496 8292 Mayor Stephen Mandel, Office of the Mayor, 2nd Floor City Hall, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB. T5J 2R7 Dear Mayor Mandel: REFERENCE:MURRAY BILLETT – POLICE COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE. On Monday, September 28th, 2009, @ 11:00 AM, a number of us attended at a University Hospital, Edmonton, […]

When Families Were Blocked From Long-Term Care Homes

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FAMILIES WERE BLOCKED FROM LONG TERM CARE HOMES. When public health officials across Canada banned visitors from nursing homes in order to protect residents from COVID-19, they cut off an essential support system. They inadvertently created a feeding crisis. Family members and advocates say some residents have died from dehydration and others […]

Alberta Health Services Taking Over Long Term Care

Manoir du Lac, McLennan AB. Alberta Health Services is taking over Manoir du Lac, a continuing care facility in McLennan that has seen 37 confirmed COVID-19 cases and five deaths due to “inadequate” care standards. Manoir du Lac has 62 residents and employs 70 staff, according to AHS. As of Friday, 26 residents had tested […]

Horror at Montreal’s RESIDENCE HERRON

HORROR AT MONTREAL’S LONG TERM CARE RESIDENCE HERRON The Quebec coroner, health authorities and the police have launched investigations in the wake of the deaths of 31 residents at a Montreal seniors’ home, where the owners allegedly withheld medical files and staff left their posts amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Relatives described a […]

DriveABLE’s Published Statements

TAB 7 DRIVEABLE’s PUBLISHED STATEMENTS a) “DriveABLE testing is the only assessment program of it’s kind to be able to objectively measure the patients cognitive ability to drive.” b) Predicts actual on- road performance c) It is the only cognitive assessment shown to be highly predictive of actual on road performance. d) Measures the cognitive […]

DriveABLE Assessment Centres Inc.

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