2023-04-18 00:53:32
After more than seven months of supervision, the health authorities have decided to proceed with the forced relocation of some 200 residents of the Floralies, two residences and CHSLDs where seniors have been mistreated and neglected.
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“In order to ensure the well-being, health and safety of long-term residents, we have decided to move all residents to other living environments,” Jean-François Miron revealed on Monday. , Deputy Director General of the CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and provisional administrator of Floralies Lachine and Floralies LaSalle.
The CIUSSS assured that it had “stabilized” the situation in these two CHSLDs since they were placed under guardianship on September 1, but still considers it necessary to move all the residents. The organization intends to unveil more details of its plan on Tuesday.
This announcement surprised the Floralies team, who claimed to have learned of it only on Monday morning.
“This situation announced today is very worrying, given the impact that such a move would have on the clientele accommodated. For many seniors, the Résidences Floralies are the last residence in their life. They are being told today that they will be uprooted, against their will, which considerably changes their life choices,” the managers of the two residences lamented in a press release.
“This measure is proving to be very disappointing after months of hard work to design numerous credible recovery plans by the Résidences Floralies team”, we added.
After disturbing revelations of cases of abuse and neglect last year by TVA Nouvelles, an investigation confirmed that the situation was “unacceptable for users”, in the words of the Minister for Health and Seniors, Sonia Bélanger .
The two establishments act both as residences for seniors with loss of autonomy, as intermediate resources and as CHSLDs.
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