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Delays in being placed in a personal care home, as a result of delays in discharge planning.

 On Tuesday April 5, I asked in question period about an individual who has been experiencing a delay in being placed in a personal care home primarily as a result of a delay in assessment and referral while at the Grace Hospital.  Fortunately, a few days after I asked the question, which is below, the woman was able to be transferred to the personal care home of her choice. 

Personal-Care-Home Placement - Con­stit­uent Case Concern

Hon. Jon Gerrard (River Heights): Madam Speaker, as I wrote the minister, Edith Berlin, a 96‑year-old woman, survived a three-day horrific ex­per­ience at the Grace emergency room.

      After treatment for a urinary tract infection and shortness of breath, she's been medically stable, now, for five days. For five days, she's been ready to go to a personal-care home, the only place she can get the 24-hour care she needs.

      Why, I ask, has the personal-care home of her choice, the Simkin Centre, not yet even received her application, nor, in five days, has the application even been completed by the hospital team.

      Is this because discharge planning has been slow and fragmented since the minister's gov­ern­ment got rid of the discharge nurses?

Hon. Scott Johnston (Minister of Seniors and Long-Term Care): I would–ap­pre­ciate the member's question.

      We do understand that, certainly, there have been challenges, through COVID, in our personal-care homes, and our gov­ern­ment is doing every­thing that we possibly can to ensure that those problems are eliminated into the future.

      I can tell you that the Stevenson report will be coming up very shortly with recom­men­dations–all 17  recom­men­dations this gov­ern­ment will be adopt­ing and also, too, as well, looking at longer term solutions also.

      So, I do ap­pre­ciate the member's question and I can assure him that we–

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