{"id":312192,"date":"2025-11-27T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:51:10","slug":"system-is-broken-nurse-says-after-her-mothers-death-following-more-than-30-hour-wait-for-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312192\/","title":{"rendered":"‘System is broken,’ nurse says after her mother’s death following more than 30-hour wait for care"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manitoba health officials are investigating a critical incident after the family of an 82-year-old woman said she died following a more than 30-hour wait for hospital care. <\/p>\n

The family of Genevieve Price said she had a swollen hand and went to a minor injury clinic for care last week.<\/p>\n

Clinic staff said Price required IV antibiotics and more intensive care, according to a social media post<\/a> by her daughter Michelle Price, who is a nurse. She was transferred to Grace Hospital.<\/p>\n

Genevieve Price was put on a stretcher in the hallway and waited for hours, her daughter said. During that time, her situation worsened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She was transferred to St. Boniface Hospital, where she later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My mom deserved better. We deserve better. We NEED better,” Michelle Price wrote in her post.<\/p>\n

“The system is broken and so is my heart.”<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, which oversees both hospitals, confirmed Wednesday that Price’s death is being investigated as a critical incident \u2014 an incident where people using Manitoba’s health system suffer serious, unintended harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement, Kerstin Jordan, the health authority’s chief officer for nursing, allied health and quality, said the health authority has extended “deepest condolences to Ms. Price\u2019s family.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jordan said the health authority’s patient safety team has launched a “comprehensive review into the circumstances that led to the incident,” and officials are focused on “identifying improvements that help ensure events like this do not happen again.” <\/p>\n

\"PersonHealth Minister Uzoma Asagwara said Genevieve Price’s death is a ‘tragedy.’ (Jeff Stapleton\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said at a press conference on Wednesday they spoke to Michelle Price daughter and expressed condolences to the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“These incidents are devastating and they are also unacceptable,” Asagwara said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We can and must do better, and our government is going to take a close look at this to make sure that everyone in this system is doing everything they can to prevent something like this from happening again.”<\/p>\n

Asagwara said a “more comprehensive investigation” needs to be done in addition to the critical incident review.<\/p>\n

“This situation is a tragedy,” they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This is not a situation that any Manitoba family, any family, should ever, ever experience.”<\/p>\n

WATCH | Woman dies after\u00a0more than 30-hour wait at Winnipeg ER:\"\"<\/p>\n

Woman dies after more than 30-hour wait at Winnipeg ER<\/p>\n

The death of an 82-year-old woman who waited more than 30 hours for care at the Grace Hospital over the weekend is being investigated as a critical incident, as the province’s health minister says they want to find out what might have been missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-312192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}