When June Bendell died at the Orchard Villa nursing home in Pickering, Ont., three weeks ago, her children were told she had choked while she was being fed a nutritional drink.
The death was deemed accidental. So they were surprised to hear what appeared to be a different version of events from the Canadian Armed Forces.
A report released on Tuesday said military personnel sent to Orchard Villa to control a COVID-19 outbreak had found that staff were not always sitting residents upright before feeding them.
The military report went on to say the high risk practice may have contributed to the death of a resident who had choked when a nursing home worker fed her “while supine.” The resident who died was not identified, but Fred Bendell said