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Families say care home neglected residents Allegations come as Nicola Lodge deals with COVID-19 case stefan labbÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com
Jing Wang concentrates as she returns a volley in her daily table tennis match with Bandula Abeysundara at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park. While the tables have been opened for use again for more than two weeks, other facilities in the park, like the playgrounds and remaining sports courts in the city were reopened on Monday. They had been closed for several weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. mario bartel/tHe tri-CitY NeWS
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Following revelations last week that COVID-19 made its way into a third seniors care home in the Tri-Cities, some residents’ families are calling out what they call patterns of neglect at the facility. Fraser Health identified a single case at Nicola Lodge on May 27 and, since then, the resident has been put into isolation, according to its head doctor Dr. Martin Lavoie. The health authority said it has now implemented “enhanced control measures” at the facility and in a written statement, the parent company, Sienna Living, outlined how staff are monitoring residents without symptoms,
screening essential visitors at the door, as well as wearing surgical masks and having their temperature taken twice per shift. Since it was revealed last week that the coronavirus had made it into the home, The Tri-City News has spoken with several family members with loved ones living at the facility. Before the pandemic, family members describe how Nicola Lodge care aides would shower residents once a week, often missing the date and leaving them to languish without bathing for two weeks at a time. “We have to remind them like, ‘Hey, our mother-inlaw didn’t get a shower.’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, she knows what day it is?’” said one family member, who spoke to The Tri-City News on condition that we not publish his name for fear of repercussions for his mother-in-law. see
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