Hospital-Institutional

Hidden camera footage shows worker taunting 85-year-old woman with rags smeared with her feces; another worker repeatedly wrestling and hitting her; and another wiping his nose on her clean sheets.

New information about the latest cuts of Registered Nurses (RNs) at The Scarborough Hospital, coming less than a week after National Nursing Week celebrations concluded, is further evidence that the Ontario government is cutting health care.

Over the past nine years working on a busy surgical ward, I have come to learn that the most valuable place a nurse can be is at a patient’s bedside.

Ontario is poised to become the first province in Canada to make automatic sprinklers mandatory in all retirement and nursing homes and residences for the disabled.

It was a bitter sweet night for those who came to reminisce about their days working at the maternity and pediatrics departments at Welland hospital.