So @WinnipegRHA have determined my dad received negligent care. We’re supposed to review the findings with Victoria Hospital and I am just so angry about it all. Everyone just passing us in to someone else. The whole thing sucked. 1/

During my Dad’s hospitalization I could get no one at Victoria hospital to call me back for 5 weeks, literally no one. Neither could my brother. My dad was deteriorating and when he caught someone on the phone we were told that was his baseline. It wasn’t 2/

He developed pressure sores on his feet from not being turned or moved and from being in a bed that was too small so his feet rubbed on the end 3/

If we wanted him to eat enough food to get the strength to recover we had to do it. There was an inadequate amount of physical therapy. 4/

Because things were so bad after 5 weeks I called the elder abuse hotline at @WinnipegRHA and filed and emergency complaint. Twice. No one called me back. 5/

My 90 year old dad had been in hospital for 6 weeks when I suggested maybe a geriatrics consult might be an idea. By this point he has such sarcopenia he couldn’t walk. 6/

He wanted palliative care and hospice and was denied. Yup. The one thing he wanted was to NOT die in a nursing home. He asked for medically assisted dying. It was never taken seriously. 7/

By this point covid was full swing and I could go back up. His bed sores were being tended to because I went to the news and created such a ruckus on twitter. But basically just slowly I dying from hospital hot potato neglect 8/

They sent him to a nursing home. A nice one but he was so upset. That was the one thing he didn’t want. He wanted hospice. But he wasn’t sick enough. Qualified for medically assisted dying. 9/ about 8

I couldn’t go up because covid. He died in the nursing home before he could get the medically assisted dying. He had the worst last 3 months a person could have. I will always remember Victoria Hospital as a place of elder abuse and @WinnipegRHA as an entity that didn’t care 10/

The thing that sucks is there will be nothing anyone involved can say. It was like beating my head against the hospital at times. I could only get @WinnipegRHA involved because I have muscle here on Twitter. That sucks. 11/

Imagine being 90 years old and all you want is hospice and being told you can’t have it. Like if a 90 year old who is too weak to eat and stand with bed sores who doesn’t want more care can’t get hospice who is it for? 12/

One night I got a call from a nurse telling me my dad was too ill for them to care for at Victoria Hospital. He had almost a respiratory arrest. The urgent care doc “took a look” and the nurse was telling me because I guess she didn’t know what else to do? 13/

I spoke with @WinnipegRHA twice about never getting a call back from the elder abuse line after calling twice and saying I was a physician. They have never followed up with me on that. So much for the hotline 14/

So now I have an e-mail from a Victoria hospital about chatting with their medical and missing directors - people I have spoken with multiple times — to review the findings. Like to what end? They will be “sorry for my loss” I suppose. 15/

I’m tweeting because no one at @WinnipegRHA responds to my calls and I have no one to contact but apparently my tweets get to them. I want to know what you are doing to fix the fucking system. I don’t trust the people who neglected my dad to self police 16/

And now I finally understand why people sue. Because when you raise concerns you get the same hot potato fuckery your family member received with their care. If people had just talked to us and responded to our concerns we wouldn’t be so upset. It made a hard thing horrible 17