From Canadian Armed Forces’s report into the state of five Ontario long-term care homes:

1. “Significant gross fecal contamination was noted in numerous patient rooms.”
2. Infestation of “ants and cockroaches plus unknown” as well as “flies.”
3. Reusing supplies after “sterility has been obviously compromised.”
4. “Nearly a dozen incidents of bleeding fungal infections.”
5. Use of “expired medication,” “high risk of dosing errors” and residents being “sedated with narcotics when they are likely just sad or depressed.”
6. Residents “not permitted to have an extra soaker pad or towel in bed to protect sheets and blankets from soiling.”
7. “Forceful feeding… causing audible choking/aspiration.”
8. Residents “crying for help” and “staff not responding (for 30 min to over 2 hours).
9. Stomach feeding tubes “not being changed in so long the contents had become foul.”
10. “Staff disappear and leave floor unattended.”
11. Resident’s left in “beds soiled in diapers.”
12. “Limited and inaccessible wound care.”
13. “Delayed changing of soiled residents leading to skin breakdown.”
14. “Poor nutritional status due to underfeeding” and “putting food… outside of residents’ reach.”
15. “Bed bound for several weeks” causing “pressure ulcers.”
16. Nurses avoiding “post-mortem care.”
17. “Leaving food in a resident’s mouth while they are sleeping.”
18. Staff claiming resident “refused to eat” instead of helping them eat.
19. “Rotten food” in resident’s room so putrid it could be smelt from the hallway.

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