{"id":33570,"date":"2023-01-09T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=33570"},"modified":"2023-01-09T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T01:17:00","slug":"op-ed-minister-thompson-issues-statement-on-patients-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=33570","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: Minister Thompson issues statement on patient&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>From a release sent to media:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CUMBERLAND COUNTY:<\/strong> The following is a statement from Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of the patient who died at Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre. This is a tragic loss, and my heart goes out to them. I understand they want answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nova Scotia Health has begun an investigation, known as a quality review, into this case to determine what happened, how we can do better and what we can do to prevent it from happening in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This investigation began automatically after the patient&#8217;s death. The results will be shared with my department and with the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to assure all Nova Scotians we remain committed to and focused on fixing our healthcare system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will act on what we learn from this investigation, and we will continue to act on what we&#8217;re hearing from healthcare workers, communities and Nova Scotians.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;] From a release sent to media: CUMBERLAND COUNTY: The following is a statement from Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson. &#8220;I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of the patient who died at Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre. This is a tragic loss, and my heart goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,997],"tags":[1727,1315,3906,1715,2742,48,4454],"class_list":["post-33570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-columns","tag-amherst","tag-cumberland-county","tag-health-and-wellness-minister-michelle-thompson","tag-healthcare","tag-michelle-thompson","tag-n-s","tag-pateint-dies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}