Disturbing transcripts of Cdn Air Force testimony before Long Term Care Commission have been released. They realized immediately homes were in “crisis.” They found “a clear rapid decline in staffing” with approx just 20% of original staff. Temp staff were hired but untrained.

Lack of communication is discussed in the LTC homes and the CAF found there was no oversight to ensure “people weren’t conducting themselves in an unethical manner.” No one was being held to account.

Major Karoline Martin says what CAF saw in long term care homes was so bad it was going to have a serious emotional impact: “we very very quickly recognized this had a high risk for either mental health struggles or long-term impacts on our clinicians...it was very traumatic.”

Mental heath teams were brought in to support military staff. (Imagine then how bad it must have been in those Ontario LTC homes)

At the end of the 61 page report the commission thanks men and women in military who went into ON Long Term Care homes, saying “it would have spun out of control if it hadn’t been for your arrival” Interesting bc CAF initial report indicated things were very much out of control

CAF found long term care residents crying for help for hours with no one coming to their aid, residents force fed to the point of choking and lying in their own feces. I would say that was out of control.

As this transcript looking at what went wrong in long term care during the first wave is released keep in mind 2,041 vulnerable residents have died. 683 residents are currently positive and there have been 10 new outbreaks since yesterday. #covid19