A long-term care operator in Ontario says a vice president has left the company after a family member claims the representative was recorded referring to families as “blood-sucking, class-action lawsuit people.” Anthony Manieri issued a statement through SEIU Healthcare on Thursday, the union that represents more than 60,000 health-care workers across Ontario.
He said the comments came after a telephone town hall Wednesday evening with families of residents at Sienna Senior Living’s Woodbridge Vista Community Care in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In the statement, he said his 55-year-old sister Lucia lives at the facility and has multiple sclerosis and contracted COVID-19.