There are 91 recommendations coming from an inquiry looking at how to prevent seniors from being murdered in long term care homes.
The inquiry commissioner, Eileen Gillese, blames a systemic failure which allowed former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer to kill eight patients in southern Ontario between 2007 and 2016.
Gillese suggests the system is not designed to catch senior’s home employees who go rogue.
The commissioner says for that reason it will take a long time to make changes since it was only because of Wettlaufer’s confession that her crimes were revealed.
Ontario’s Minister of Long Term Care Dr. Merrillee Fullerton says she’ll be taking some time to digest the report.
Fullerton says there will be new funding to address the recommendations.
She adds she’ll also get further advice from a sub-committee of the Premier’s Health Care Council on how best to act.
