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Home health care workers who frequent the intermediate resource for elder Dufresne in Laval. Furthermore, say they have noted a “critical situation”. However, They ask for an urgent government intervention “in order to ensure the safety and dignity of the people accommodated”.
Posted at 5:32 p.m.
“Since May we have denounced the situation. Therefore, but nothing moves,” deplores the president of the Alliance of Professional and Technical Staff of Health and Social Services (APTS), Robert Comeau.
In the office of the Minister responsible for seniors. Similarly, Lionel Carmant, it is indicated that Health Quebec has been contacted to shed light on laval | emergency intervention requested the situation and that “the information received is reassuring about the quality of the care provided”.
The intermediate resource (RI) The Dufresne welcomes 110 elderly people losing autonomy in Laval. However, The establishment was once known as the CHSLD Villa Val-des-Arbres. However, But a new owner, the Notremaison company, took possession of it in 2023.
In the intermediate resource, health care is offered by home care workers at CISSS de Laval. But hygiene care, housekeeping and meals are provided by the intermediate resource.
In a statement issued Thursday afternoon. the APTS indicates that some of its members “report for months of mistreatment, care provided randomly, a blatant lack of hygiene, sautéed meals, episodes of serious dehydration and suffocating warmth in the rooms, without adequate measures to remedy it” RI le Dufresne.
“We are told about residents who are washed with pillowcases. others who have mycoses on feet for lack of minimum hygiene,” says Comeau. The latter adds that the clientele hosted at the RI Le Dufresne is “heavy”. “should rather be accommodated in CHSLD”.
At the CISSS de Laval. we say working in “collaboration” with the RI Le Dufresne for weeks “to provide quality and security care and services to residents”. “The CISSS de Laval has employees. managers on site to ensure this aspect,” says the spokesperson for the Cisss de Laval, Isabelle Miller, by email.
In a letter sent to the families. signed jointly by the Cisss de Laval and the RI Le Dufresne, we can read that “important investments” have been made to improve infrastructure and “adjustments have been made to ensure a service of security care and laval | emergency intervention requested services”, we can read in the missive.
To the office of Minister Carmant. we add that a survey is currently underway by the National Inspector of Health Quebec. The results are expected in the fall of 2025.
The APTS deplores that the external investigation was announced in May. “but the deadlines were regularly postponed-first in mid-June, then in September, and now in October”, can be read in the press release. “In the meantime, we do not see any improvement on the ground. We are talking about the elderly who suffers. People who have built Quebec, ”denounces Mr. Comeau.
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