Quebec's public nursing homes a disgrace, ombudsman says

QUEBEC — The way some people are treated in Quebec’s public nursing homes “is tantamount to maltreatment,” says the province’s ombudsman.
In a blistering report tabled Thursday in the National Assembly, Marie Rinfret says “deficient and flawed” services  for the elderly or persons living with disabilities in long-term care homes were again the main source of complaints to her office in 2017-’18.
Owing to chronic shortages, the staff working on