UPDATE

We've just heard back from our evening support staff members at Maples PCH, who are exhausted and demoralized.

Revera's claims that staffing was at 100% is false, and our evening staff are incredibly upset that management and government would claim otherwise.

Our evening staff members confirm the paramedic whistleblower's assertion that there were only 3 health care aides on the second floor on the evening of November 6.

Our evening staff further report that there were only four health care aides on the first floor that evening.

Health care aide duties were being "augmented" by general labourers, who are not trained to do the work of health care aides.

It appears Revera has included the total number of staff on site, including general labourers and the new security guards in their claim that staffing was at 100%.

3 health care aides on the first floor (100 beds).
4 health care aides on the second floor (100 beds).

Revera indicated that there were 15 health care aides working that evening (accounting for the home not being at full capacity).

But our members are telling us there were only 7 health care aides in total at the time the paramedics arrived.

Today @ManitobaNurses also confirmed that nursing staff is not at 100% at Maples Personal Care Home, and wasn't on the evening of November 6.

Something is not right.
There is no transparency, no accountability.

We need the WRHA to assume full control of this facility now.

We should add - some of the day staff worked overtime into the evening to try to help, and due to exhaustion simply couldn't continue.

This is the situation at care homes. It is unsustainable.