Staff at nursing home giant Extendicare abused woman who died from dehydration, says report

An elderly woman who died from dehydration and a urinary tract infection — caused by sitting in wet diapers —
was abused by staff at an Alberta nursing home who admitted they were too overworked to care for her properly,
according to a scathing government report.

Josephine Ewashko had been a resident at Extendicare Viking in Viking, Alta. — southeast of Edmonton —
since 2016.

She was rushed to hospital in November 2018 and died two weeks later, just shy of her 80th birthday.

“Sometimes I feel like a hitman, because we were paying to have our mother killed,” said her son,
Dana Ewashko.

“It’s sickening, is what it is,” he said. “If somebody doesn’t get enough water? Somebody doesn’t get
changed? They didn’t do their job.”

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Shortly after his mother’s death, he complained to Alberta’s office of Protection for Persons in Care
(PPC) , which recently issued a report, obtained by Go Public, describing Josephine’s slow deterioration
due to the staff’s neglect.

As a result, says the report, she experienced “serious bodily harm” leading to her death.331
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An elderly woman who died from dehydration and a urinary tract infection — caused by sitting in wet diapers
— was abused by staff at an Alberta nursing home who admitted they were too overworked to care for her properly,
according to a scathing government report.

Josephine Ewashko had been a resident at Extendicare Viking in Viking, Alta. — southeast of Edmonton — since 2016.

She was rushed to hospital in November 2018 and died two weeks later, just shy of her 80th birthday.

“Sometimes I feel like a hitman, because we were paying to have our mother killed,” said her son, Dana Ewashko.

“It’s sickening, is what it is,” he said. “If somebody doesn’t get enough water? Somebody doesn’t get changed?
They didn’t do their job.”

Been wronged and you’re not the only one?

Shortly after his mother’s death, he complained to Alberta’s office of Protection for Persons in Care (PPC) ,
which recently issued a report, obtained by Go Public, describing Josephine’s slow deterioration due to the
staff’s neglect.

As a result, says the report, she experienced “serious bodily harm” leading to her death.