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- \u201cHas inadequate senior leadership (supervisory staff) presence on the institution\u2019s units, at all times, to ensure appropriate adherence to IPAC\u2019\u2019 (infection prevention and control) measures and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
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- \u201cHas inadequate and\/or insufficient IPAC knowledge and processes to protect resident needs, and requires assistance from York Region Public Health, Mackenzie Health Hospital, Public Health Ontario and the Local Health Integration Network to provide IPAC expertise to the institution to help contain and stop the COVID-19 at the institution.\u2019\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
So, 10 months into the pandemic and Villa Leonardo Gambin staff and administrators still remain so clueless about protocols for containing the virus \u2014 ensuring proper equipment, supplies and services, vigilant procedures, sufficient staffing and supervision, risk assessment, monitoring of essential care visitors, appropriate use of PPE, and immediately correcting errors \u2014 that Kurji (thankfully) has had to step in.<\/p>\n
\n\nUnclear, from the way the order was written, is whether it\u2019s a direct management order, compelling management takeover by Mackenzie Health Hospital, or what is known as a \u201cvoluntary management contract\u2019\u2019 that, upon consultation, establishes a management arrangement with a hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo confirm, Villa Leonardo Gambin received an order from the Medical Officer of Health for The Regional Municipality of York,\u2019\u2019 Sienna spokesperson Nadia Daniell-Colarossi tells the Star by email.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no transfer of management to Mackenzie Health.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Adding: \u201cWe are working around the clock with our partners to care for residents and support team members at Villa Leonardo Gambin. Our resolve to fight COVID-19 is firm; however, it is incredibly challenging when the virus circulates a high levels in the community.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Daniell-Colarossi says Sienna has implemented a \u201crobust\u2019\u2019 action plan that\u2019s been approved by York Region Public Health and other authorities, and \u201chave taken concrete steps to ensure additional advisory staff are on-site,\u2019\u2019 with further measures to \u201cstrength education and training around infection prevention and control.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Which is another way of saying that a robust action plan and concrete steps had been lacking before Kurji got on the case.<\/p>\n
The provincial government does not post its orders online. But the Ontario Health Coalition, with its 400-member organizations, has done a good job of keeping track by cross-referencing data. In \u201cA Call to Conscience,\u2019\u2019 a 68-page report issued Dec. 17 that documents in heartbreaking detail the inequities and shortfalls in institutional care for the elderly \u2014 outbreaks following the first wave of massive LTC contagion skyrocketed \u201cwith hair-raising speed\u2019\u2019 from 18 facilities, active, on Sept. 1 (only two had more than five cases) to 117 facilities, active, on Dec. 1 (and had reached 187 by Thursday) \u2014 lists eight institutions which have received management orders and 16 with \u201cfacilitated management agreements.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
All but one are for-profit homes.<\/p>\n
- \u201cHas inadequate and\/or insufficient IPAC knowledge and processes to protect resident needs, and requires assistance from York Region Public Health, Mackenzie Health Hospital, Public Health Ontario and the Local Health Integration Network to provide IPAC expertise to the institution to help contain and stop the COVID-19 at the institution.\u2019\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n