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With the devastating #outbreak at yet another Revera care home, this time in Manitoba (who shares Alberta's struggle with #COVID19 numbers going up), I decided to hop onto Google, and found this fact sheet on private for profit care homes:
https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/event-make-revera-public-zoom-townhall-all-are-invited/?fbclid=IwAR2LFuVfpXtiTbiJlD7RFF-x1qXojtmRpcGIM7VQ4Q_tkHzoNBafb3AsPpE
With the devastating #outbreak at yet another Revera care home, this time in Manitoba (who shares Alberta's struggle with #COVID19 numbers going up), I decided to hop onto Google, and found this fact sheet on private for profit care homes:
https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/event-make-revera-public-zoom-townhall-all-are-invited/?fbclid=IwAR2LFuVfpXtiTbiJlD7RFF-x1qXojtmRpcGIM7VQ4Q_tkHzoNBafb3AsPpE
“rate of death, as measured by the proportion of deaths over total number of beds in homes with COVID-19 outbreaks resulting in death, was: 9% in for-profit homes; 5.25% in non-profit homes, and; 3.62% in publicly-owned (municipal) homes & was growing faster in the for-profits.”
“...residents in for-profit homes were 60% more likely to contract COVID-19 and 45% more likely to die from the virus than residents in non-profit homes.”
“A for-profit resident was also 4x more likely to catch COVID-19 & 4x more likely to die than a resident in a municipally run home”
“Overall, six for-profit chain companies accounted for more than half of the deaths and Revera had the second most deaths in the industry, accounting for 230 out of 967 deaths.”
“Not only have for-profit long-term care homes experienced more deaths than non-profit and municipal homes, they have had worse staffing shortages during the pandemic.”
Alberta, is this what we want - to move even more towards re: private for-profit Long Term Care homes? Is this what we want when we don't focus on #patientsoverprofit and #healthnotwealth ?
This is an account from a paramedic who saw the scene in Manitoba at the for-profit care home, that in a way mirrors the stats above:
