01-12-2018 03:22 via montrealgazette.com

Quebec needs 'a new way' for CHSLDs, critics say

For years, patient-rights advocate Paul Brunet read with despair report after report about the pitiful state of the province’s network of long-term care centres.
In 2003, it was the report of a public inquest into allegations that orderlies hit frail patients at the St-Charles-Borromée nursing home in downtown Montreal. More than a decade later, in 2015, it was a coroner’s report into the deaths of 32 elderly people in a fire that swept through a mostly sprinkler-free private
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