William McGuigan, chair of the Nursing Home Association of P.E.I., says the province's April 10 announcement of 54 new long-term care beds at private facilities will help address the shortage of the spaces on the Island. McGuigan speaks...

Health Minister Mark McLane gave more details April 10 about a plan P.E.I.'s Premier announced in February to add 54 new private long-term care beds in the province. But the Opposition says it's too little, too late.

Alberta Health Services is facing questions about vulnerable patients being transferred from hospital to hotel. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says the province will review a list of social services agencies it uses to facilitate the...

Alberta Health Services is facing questions about vulnerable patients being transferred from hospital to hotel. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says the province will review a list of social services agencies it uses to facilitate the...

Another vulnerable hospital patient discharged from hospital has ended up in a hotel instead of the proper care facility. The hotel owners say the agency that placed him there has not paid its hotel bill and doctors question how they...

Two years after being accepted into a federal program that offers work in health care, African refugees are arriving in Nova Scotia to take on their new jobs.

Two years after being accepted into a federal program that offers work in health care, African refugees are arriving in Nova Scotia to take on their new jobs.

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The tragic death of an Alberta woman with dementia froze who wandered away from her care home in frigid temperatures has prompted an investigation by the provincial health authority and questions from her friend about how this could have...

The use of antipsychotic medications in long-term care homes spiked during COVID-19 lockdowns, newly obtained figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information show, which says the drugs are being inappropriately prescribed to...

Critics and families in Ontario are calling for more clarity over new legislation that could see patients sent to long-term care facilities not of their choosing in an effort to free up hospital beds.

Ontario's plan to help resolve its hospital bed crisis by moving some elderly patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes focuses on 'the wrong pocket of patients,' says Jana Ray of the seniors advocacy organization CanAge.

The Ontario government has laid out a plan to take pressure off its health-care system that involves increasing the number of publicly covered surgeries offered at private clinics, while also moving patients waiting for long-term care...

As Baby Boomers age, a study from the National Institute on Ageing projects public costs for long-term care will triple to more than $70-billion a year, over the next three decades.

Saskatchewan health officials are apologizing for a lab error that resulted in 206 false positives and are accordingly reversing their declaration of outbreaks in some Regina nursing homes.

Saskatchewan health officials are apologizing for a lab error that resulted in 206 false-positives and reversing their declaration of outbreaks in some Regina nursing homes.

A new report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that the proportion of COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes represented 69 per cent of Canada's overall COVID-19 deaths, well above the international average.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will offer free tuition to train 6,000 new PSWs for positions in long-term and community care as part of its strategy to fix 'decades of neglect' in long-term care.

Quebec's Laurent Duvernay-Tardif of the Kansas City Chiefs opted out of the NFL season to work in a long-term care home during the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks to Matt Galloway of CBC Radio's The Current about what he learned.

Tendercare Living Centre in Toronto's east end said as of Saturday, 116 residents and 77 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. The care home also reported 13 additional deaths, bringing the total to 39.

A weekend review by health officials from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has found changes are needed immediately at Parkview Place, the site of the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak at a Manitoba care home to date.

In the west end of Toronto, the Elm Grove Living Centre was one of the many long-term care homes hit hard by COVID-19, with 21 deaths and over 100 cases. But a nightly show of support has brought the community together and given those...

'They are my family. They are my grandmother, they are my aunt,' says Lucie Dalpé, but she's worried about the exodus of workers to long-term care homes.

Doug Ford says the comparison to deaths in Spain is faulty because of the methodology used to arrive at the figures.