From Canadian Armed Forces’s report into the state of five Ontario long-term care homes:
- “Significant gross fecal contamination was noted in numerous patient rooms.”
- Infestation of “ants and cockroaches plus unknown” as well as “flies.”
- Reusing supplies after “sterility has been obviously compromised.”
- “Nearly a dozen incidents of bleeding fungal infections.”
- Use of “expired medication,” “high risk of dosing errors” and residents being “sedated with narcotics when they are likely just sad or depressed.”
- Residents “not permitted to have an extra soaker pad or towel in bed to protect sheets and blankets from soiling.”
- “Forceful feeding… causing audible choking/aspiration.”
- Residents “crying for help” and “staff not responding (for 30 min to over 2 hours).
- Stomach feeding tubes “not being changed in so long the contents had become foul.”
- “Staff disappear and leave floor unattended.”
- Resident’s left in “beds soiled in diapers.”
- “Limited and inaccessible wound care.”
- “Delayed changing of soiled residents leading to skin breakdown.”
- “Poor nutritional status due to underfeeding” and “putting food… outside of residents’ reach.”
- “Bed bound for several weeks” causing “pressure ulcers.”
- Nurses avoiding “post-mortem care.”
- “Leaving food in a resident’s mouth while they are sleeping.”
- Staff claiming resident “refused to eat” instead of helping them eat.
- “Rotten food” in resident’s room so putrid it could be smelt from the hallway.
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