58 health-care workers reported direct harm to patients<\/a> and 188 reported delays in patient care.<\/p>\nCBC has obtained a letter through a freedom of information request written by a physician who works at the IWK to the health minister and Karen Oldfield, the CEO of Nova Scotia Health.<\/p>\n
The doctor’s identity is redacted in the documents. The letter, which was sent two days before Horne’s baby died, said a number of requisitions for prenatal ultrasounds had been lost.<\/p>\n
“Many patients had ultrasounds completed later than recommended due to these systemic failures,” the doctor wrote. “This is not acceptable.”<\/p>\n
Janet Hazelton, president of the Nova Scotia Nurses\u2019 Union (NSNU), said her members also have concerns about the system but she feels they\u2019re being addressed as best as possible.<\/p>\n
Hazelton said the first four to six weeks at the IWK after the transition were \u201creally concerning,\u201d but she said there has been \u201ca tremendous amount of positive progress\u201d since then. Her union represents nurses at the hospital.<\/p>\n
‘It’s very frustrating’<\/p>\n
Holly Horne, Cassidy’s mother, said the IWK should have informed the public that records had gone missing.<\/p>\n
“It’s very frustrating to know that they knew something was going on, and they didn’t do anything to prevent that from happening,” she said.<\/p>\n
“For them not to mention anything to us about that, knowing that these were getting lost. Why couldn’t they just take a piece of paper and write it down and take it to the ultrasound?”<\/p>\n
During an interview about OPOR implementation, Dr. Krista Jangaard, president and CEO at the IWK Health Centre, said she’s not aware of the status of the investigation into the loss of Horne’s baby.<\/p>\n
She said she could not speak directly about the case, or any other patient scenarios at the hospital, because of confidentiality laws.<\/p>\n
“Do I believe there have been any significant patient harms over the last five months? No,” she said.<\/p>\n
When asked if there were any deaths connected to OPOR, Jangaard reiterated her response: “No.”<\/p>\n
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Dr. Krista Jangaard, the president and CEO of the IWK, said she is not aware of any significant patient harms caused by OPOR. (Jeorge Sadi\/CBC)<\/p>\n
When asked why the IWK didn’t start a public awareness campaign after records were lost, she said she wasn’t sure. But Jangaard pointed out that there was extensive internal messaging, including information on the hospital’s website, and clinics were keeping patients up to date.<\/p>\n
“We do know that some documentation was not easily available to be found or misdirected. Those things have been changed and fixed.”<\/p>\n
The Horne family said they will continue to speak out in an effort to make the public aware of what is at stake.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many reasons why people should be worried about this new system. They don’t have any real answer for us yet so how many more records are being lost, how many more people, children, women are suffering because of this?” Holly Horne said.<\/p>\n
“My granddaughter should be here with us right now.”<\/p>\n
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OPOR is a fundamental change to the workflow in Nova Scotia’s health-care system. It’s merging over 80 different current workflows. Everything from blood work to food services will be run through the program when it’s fully implemented across the province. (Carolyn Ray\/CBC)<\/p>\n