The convalescent home receives about twenty residents with board and lodging. The residency is private, so it is not funded by the mission. The care services, such as hygiene and medication, are covered by the state employment service check program.

This public health program grants residents a certain number of hours of care per week. This care is provided by the staff of the dormitory. Owner Lucie Duval explains that an assessment grid determines the number of hours each resident needs. According to her, the care times were reduced, which sometimes deprived the residents of up to ten hours of care per week.

” We live with more than 100 hours of work time reduction, which affects all users. And also to employees whose remuneration depends on the length of service. »

The residence had to lay off four since the beginning of the year. The owner does not understand the reason for this drastic change.

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THE CIUSSS MCQ refutes the residence claim. According to a spokesman, the hours have not been reduced as much … but without being able to give incriminating numbers.

The Regional Directorate of Public Health confirms that users’ needs are identified in collaboration with families. But that’s not the version of the supervisors who have confided in Radio-Canada, who lament the reduction in duty hours.

The residence could go out of business and residents would have to be relocated. For some, it would be finding themselves facing the unknown, since the Camélia is the only place to stay.

With information from Jacob Côté