Alberta needs a staffing strategy for continuing care homes to prevent the worker burnout and inadequate care that transpired early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the province's auditor general says.
Doug Wylie, Alberta's auditor general, released a report on Feb. 23, 2023, on the way COVID-19 impacted Alberta continuing care facilities.
The report, COVID-19 in Continuing Care Facilities, shows people suffer when plans and systems go awry, Wylie said. Seniors are particularly vulnerable to the virus causing COVID-19. Although just eight per cent of the province's cases in 2020 were in continuing care, 65 per cent of Albertans who died after being infected were living in one of the facilities, the report says.
In a statement, Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping said the government accepts and is working on all of the recommendations. The auditor also found that buildings with shared rooms and cramped spaces were the sites of some of the most severe outbreaks.
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