‘Disturbing’ Long Term Care Home Report Doesn’t Come As Surprise To Families

‘Disturbing’ Long Term Care Home Report Doesn’t Come As Surprise To Families
A home-care worker is shown outside Orchard Villa long-term care home in Pickering, Ont., on May 26, 2020. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press
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Simon Nisbet is convinced that if he hadn’t moved his mother out of her long-term care home, she would never have left alive.

He said daily visits to her window at Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ont., led to a mounting list of concerns as a deadly COVID-19 outbreak swept through the home, killing dozens of residents.