RE:Nursing homes not to blame totally. I can attest to this. My dad is late 80's living at home with heart failure. He was being seen once a month in-hospital by his cardiologist to manage his condition since open heart surgery is not an option for him due to his frailty.
Everything was being managed fine until the pandemic hit and then his appointments went virtual. When I reported his condition as weakening, they still did not want him to come in to hosptial due to the risk of covid so instead advised him to visit his family doctor. We did so, but 2 days later he was eventually admitted to hospital.
It was a frustrating experience and yet I can't blame anyone in particular. Our health system is working beyond max risking their lives to save lives in this uncertain time of covid. They are figuring it out too. Changes need to be made. More money for sure but having government take it over would be a terrible solution as they are already part of the problem.
Macloud1 wrote: The blame for the shortfall in all nursing homes falls back on the Health System as they were directed
not to send patients to hospitals and doctors stopped attending the homes. 2021-03-30 06:44 ET - In the News
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The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Canadians living in nursing homes received less medical care for everything from urinary tract infections to lung disease and heart failure during the early days of the pandemic, a new report says. The Globe's Karen Howlett writes that the number of residents transferred to hospital for chronic medical conditions fell 27 per cent between March 1 and Aug. 31, 2020, compared with the same period in 2019, according to the analysis from Canada's health care statistics agency. Doctors visited 16 per cent fewer residents in the homes. Nursing homes were all but forgotten during the health system's push to ensure that hospitals were not overwhelmed. The pandemic also altered the practice of medicine across the country, as some provinces discouraged transferring the frail elderly to hospitals, and on-line and telephone appointments between doctors and patients became common. The Canadian Institute for Health Information report marks the first official attempt to measure the toll these practices took on nursing home residents. The national snapshot is far from complete. Hospital transfers do not include Quebec, the province hardest hit by COVID-19 during the first wave.
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