{"id":12513,"date":"2020-05-04T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2020-06-22T04:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:08:42","slug":"long-term-care-devastation-rises-including-3-more-covid-19-deaths-in-newmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/long-term-care-devastation-rises-including-3-more-covid-19-deaths-in-newmarket\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term care ‘devastation’ rises, including 3 more COVID-19 deaths in Newmarket"},"content":{"rendered":"

(May 3, 2020)<\/p>\n

By: Debora Kelly, New Market Today<\/p>\n

Despite some flattening of the curve of new COVID-19 cases in York\u00a0Region, deaths in long-term care homes continue to spiral upwards, including three more Newmarket residents at Mackenzie Place Long-term Care confirmed today.<\/p>\n

A 90-year-man, a resident of Mackenzie Place,\u00a0passed away Thursday, April 30 at Southlake Regional Health Centre. He had tested positive April 16, and symptoms first appeared one week later, April 23.<\/p>\n

A 78-year-old woman passed away\u00a0Saturday, May 2 at Mackenzie Place, after testing positive April 18, despite being asymptomatic.<\/p>\n

An 83-year-old woman who passed away today, May 3, was the 10th resident of the Revera facility on George Street to die as a result of COVID-19. Her symptoms first appeared April 22, and she tested posted May 1.<\/p>\n

New cases confirmed in Mackenzie Place residents\u00a0have spiked to 72 \u2014 the highest number of infected residents among the region’s 38 institutional outbreaks. Health-care worker cases increased to 21.<\/p>\n

York Region public health is also reporting\u00a0the deaths of four other long-term care residents this weekend, three residents of Kristus Darzs Latvian Home in Woodbridge, now totalling four deaths, as well as\u00a0the first COVID-19 death at Richview Manor in Maple.<\/p>\n

Of the region’s 113\u00a0COVID-19 deaths, 82\u00a0have resulted from an outbreak at a long-term care, retirement or group home facility.<\/p>\n

The Ontario Health Coalition continues to call on the Ontario government to take further measures to halt “the devastation” occurring in long-term care and retirement homes as a result of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

“While measures that have been announced\u00a0by the provincial government are welcome and sincerely appreciated, still there remains a dangerous disconnect between what the Premier has said he is going to do and the actual policy measures undertaken by his government,” coalition spokesperson Natalie Mehra said in a news release.<\/p>\n

The coalition is urging the Ford government to:\u00a0immediately improve\u00a0access to PPE; permanently improve\u00a0wages and\u00a0working conditions; mandate a four-hour minimum care standard; improve\u00a0infection control; and end for-profit long-term care.<\/p>\n

York Region has 38 active outbreaks, with the addition of\u00a0Amica at Swan Lake in Markham this weekend. However, outbreaks have been declared over at six facilities now, including Christian Horizons in Keswick and, today, at Reena Rockview in Vaughan.<\/p>\n

Increasing to 563\u00a0cases,\u00a0institutional outbreak remains\u00a0the major cause\u00a0\u2014 at 35\u00a0per cent \u2014 of COVID-19 in York Region.<\/p>\n

Institutional\u00a0outbreak cases<\/a><\/span>\u00a0accounted for a spike in cases in Newmarket this weekend, now at\u00a066\u00a0per cent of Newmarket’s 160 cases, and the rising death toll at\u00a013.<\/p>\n

Southlake Regional Health Centre is the first hospital in York Region to declare a COVID-19 outbreak, with an additional patient,\u00a0now totalling three, and one health-care worker\u00a0testing\u00a0positive<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The number of residents and patients with COVID-19 has skyrocketed to 423, as have health-care worker cases\u00a0at 341, since the province mandated testing of all residents and staff April 23.<\/p>\n

The total number of cases in York Region today is 1,639, with 71\u00a0new cases since May 1.<\/p>\n

The number of hospitalized patients in York Region continues to rapidly increase,\u00a0at 75 today, with 17\u00a0cases critically ill in ICU. In Newmarket, 10\u00a0residents are hospitalized, with two in ICU.<\/p>\n

Resolved cases<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the region are 754,\u00a0or 46\u00a0per cent. In Newmarket, only 25 per cent of cases are resolved.<\/p>\n

Health-care workers with COVID-19 increased from 86\u00a0to 89\u00a0today: nine are in Newmarket; four\u00a0in Aurora, one in East Gwillimbury, one in Georgina, five\u00a0in Whitchurch-Stouffville; nine\u00a0in Richmond Hill, 26\u00a0in Vaughan; and 35\u00a0in Markham.<\/p>\n

Of 1,639 cases (+17\u00a0today) in York Region<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n