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08.01.2021 / 02:25

After criticism, B.C. to provide more information about COVID-19 cases at care homes

COVID-19 cases at individual care homes and assisted-living facilities.The numbers of cases by staff and residents will be provided once a week, as well as the number of people who have died in the care home due to the virus.In the fall, the province stopped the practice of notifying the public on how many cases of the virus had been detected in each care home. Instead, the province provided the overall number of cases linked to both residents and staff at long-term care facilities.The province will continue to report the care homes where staff or residents have tested positive for COVID-19 in each of the provincial briefings and updates.Earlier this week provincial health officer Dr.

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COVID-19 detected at 4 more B.C. residential care homes in Fraser Health

COVID-19-stricken B.C. school ‘should have been closed a week ago,’ say parents Staff members at the Kiwanis Care Centre in New Westminster and the George Derby Centre in Burnaby had tested positive, said the health authority.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]A staff member and three residents at Jackman Manor in Aldergrove, and a staff member and one resident at the PICS assisted living facility in Surrey also tested positive, it said.All affected individuals were isolating, and health officials were working to communicate with family members, it said.

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Survey to assess impact of restrictions on B.C. seniors’ homes during pandemic

launched a survey to assess the impact of visitor restrictions in long-term care and assisted living facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic.Isobel Mackenzie says the impact of the restrictions on many residents and their families has been profound and it’s time for their voices to be heard the province-wide survey. Coronavirus: B.C.

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Second COVID-19 outbreak at George Derby campus unrelated to first, says Fraser Health

COVID-19 outbreaks within hours at separate health-care facilities owned by one company in Burnaby — but they say the two outbreaks aren’t connected.On Friday afternoon, health officials announced that a staff member at Derby Manor, an independent living facility operated by the George Derby Care Society, had contracted the virus.Hours later, they said a resident of George Derby Centre, a long-term care centre, had also tested positive.The two are separate facilities, located on the same campus of care. B.C.

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Coronavirus outbreak declared over at Kelowna retirement residence

Interior Health has declared the coronavirus outbreak at two connected seniors facilities in Kelowna over.

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B.C. assisted living residents send message to family amid COVID-19 lockdown

With assisted living facilities around B.C. on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, some residents of a B.C. facility have sent messages of love to their families through a Facebook video.

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COVID-19 pandemic means home care workers will only provide essential services

Morgan Fedak talks often to his mother. He didn’t want to make this call.

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Coronavirus: B.C. man says mother at risk from gaps in support for certain seniors’ homes

A B.C. man says he fears for his mothers safety, after learning the seniors’ home she lives in does not qualify for the same kind of support as provincially-licensed seniors facilities.

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