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\nGenevieve Price died after reportedly waiting more than 30 hours in the emergency department at Grace Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe details that we see in this post are very, very disturbing and are calling many, many things into question. As a matter of course, a critical incident has been launched,\u201d he said in the legislature.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere seems to have been some errors made in the care for this person, who we lost far too soon. But beyond that, it would seem that there are other issues at play \u2014 potentially systemic ones \u2014 and on account of that, our minister of health has committed to doing an additional investigation, beyond the (critical incident) report to get to the bottom of just what went wrong here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Free Press has reached out to the woman\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
Her post says her mother went to the Minor Illness and Injury Clinic on Corydon Avenue on Nov. 16, where she was treated for a swollen wrist and hand. She went to the minor injury clinic at the Misericordia Health Centre four days later, after steroids she was given to treat the problem did not work.<\/p>\n
Misericordia staff felt the woman needed further care, including intravenous antibiotics, and referred her to the Grace Hospital where she was admitted at about 7 p.m. that day, the post said.<\/p>\n
The woman remained at Grace Hospital on a stretcher in the hallway until about 6 a.m. Saturday, when she was transferred to St. Boniface Hospital. By then, medical staff \u201cwere in life-saving mode and very little could be done,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe became confused. Not knowing why she was at the hospital. She was rediscovering her swollen hand every three minutes. She went from walking and taking and being able to give her medical history and details to weak and confused in less than 24 hours,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe system is broken and so is my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ordeal lasted more than 30 hours, during which the woman feared her mother was going septic and advocated for health-care staff to reassess her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t blame the nurses; in fact, I feel for them,\u201d the post said. \u201cThey are over stretched, stressed and given so little resources. My mom deserved better. We deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority confirmed the patient who died was Genevieve Price.<\/p>\n
Further details about the situation, including the patient\u2019s age and diagnosis, are being withheld due to privacy legislation, Kerstin Jordan, the health authority\u2019s chief nursing officer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have extended our deepest condolences to Ms. Price\u2019s family and acknowledge the profound loss they are experiencing,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a situation that any Manitoba family \u2013 any family \u2013 should ever experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur patient safety team has begun a comprehensive review into the circumstances that led to the incident. Hospital leadership and our patient relations team will remain in touch with the family, and they will be invited to participate in the review and creation of improvement recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara confirmed the woman who made the post is a nurse, and said they spoke to each other \u201cat length.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe very graciously and very generously had a conversation with me, not only about her family\u2019s experience, but about her experience as a nurse in the health-care system,\u201d Asagwara said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation is a tragedy. The family did everything that they could do to get their mother the care that she needed, when she needed it. This is not a situation that any Manitoba family \u2014 any family \u2014 should ever experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t MIKAELA MACKENZIE \/ FREE PRESS FILES<\/p>\n Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara is set to launch an investigation into the death of a patient who waited more than 30 hours for proper care. <\/p>\n Asagwara did not confirm any details surrounding the death, saying the critical incident review will provide more clarity on the situation.<\/p>\n The minister connected with people within the WRHA to discuss \u201csome of the pressures that the Grace (Hospital) was experiencing on the weekend\u201d but Asagwara did not say whether the facility was understaffed around the time of the death.<\/p>\n The secondary review spearheaded by the province will determine if and how systemic challenges such as patient flow, miscommunication or other factors contributed to the death, Asagwara said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to understand, not only what happened here in as much detail as possible, we need to understand how we can prevent this from happening again to any Manitoban,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson said she, too, has been communicating with the grieving daughter.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are falling through the cracks because the cracks are that huge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to her in person, but we\u2019ve been messaging back and forth\u2026. She\u2019s shocked, and she can\u2019t believe this happened, \u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis should never have happened. This was totally preventable had this been dealt with sooner, but the reality of our situation is people are falling through the cracks because the cracks are that huge.\u201d<\/p>\n Jackson said the tragedy will send a chill throughout the province.<\/p>\n \u201cImagine how helpless (people) feel in this system? Even a nurse wasn\u2019t able to navigate the system.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t Opposition Leader Obby Khan blamed the NDP government for the death.<\/p>\n \u201cTo the family, and all Manitobans watching, I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry that this premier and health minister didn\u2019t do better by you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Asagwara countered, saying the Tories made a \u201cmassive, massive mistake\u201d by closing three Winnipeg emergency departments while they were in power, and Manitobans are still suffering as a result.<\/p>\n \u2014With files from Carol Sanders<\/p>\n tyler.searle@freepress.mb.ca<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Tyler Searle Tyler Searle is a multimedia producer who writes for the Free Press\u2019s city desk. A graduate of Red River College Polytechnic\u2019s creative communications program, he wrote for the Stonewall Teulon Tribune, Selkirk Record and Express Weekly News before joining the paper in 2022.\u00a0Read more about Tyler<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Tyler produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n \t\t
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