ICYMI: Staffing shortages, unpreparedness plagued Alberta long-term care COVID response: Auditor general report yyc abhealth ableg COVID19AB
Doug Wylie concluded that while both Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services put forward a pandemic response in publicly funded continuing-care sites, many of the actions were ineffective.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Wylie wrote that planning and preparedness around infectious disease prevention and control was in place before the pandemic, but insufficient to handle COVID.Article content He also recommended formalizing outbreak management and testing protocols, better tracking of resident illness and staff absences from disease outbreaks, and updating and exercising a pandemic plan for the continuing-care sector.Article contentA secondary report assessed progress made on recommendations handed down in 2014
Some recommendations are directed to Alberta Health, while others are issued to AHS, the province’s health authority. Both parties said Thursday they accept all recommendations.Health Minister Jason Copping said his UCP government is prioritizing improved care for seniors, and said work is already underway to implement some lessons from the pandemic.Article content
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Staffing shortages, unpreparedness plagued Alberta long-term care COVID response: Auditor general reportAlberta\u0027s long\u002Dterm care facilities were unprepared to handle the deadly first waves of COVID\u002D19, according to an auditor general report.
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Staffing shortages, unpreparedness hurt Alberta long-term care COVID response: reportAlberta\u0027s long\u002Dterm care facilities were unprepared to handle the deadly first waves of COVID\u002D19, according to an auditor general report.
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Staffing shortages, unpreparedness hurt Alberta long-term care COVID response: reportAlberta\u0027s long\u002Dterm care facilities were unprepared to handle the deadly first waves of COVID\u002D19, according to an auditor general report.
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Alberta auditor says staff shortages led to major care home problems during pandemicWylie made the findings in a report examining how health officials and those in Alberta’s 355 continuing care centres coped over eight months in 2020
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Alberta auditor general finds urgent overhaul needed for continuing care centres | CBC NewsAlberta needs a staffing strategy for continuing care homes to prevent the worker burnout and inadequate care for vulnerable people that transpired early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the province’s auditor general says.
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