December 23, 2020 – The Globe and Mail
Urgent plea for doctors goes out at Toronto-area nursing home hit by COVID-19
By: Karen Howlett
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge, said Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA, a breaking point is coming when hospitals won’t have enough staff to support long-term care homes or take acute-care patients from other sites. Dr. Stall himself frequently gets patients from Scarborough and as far away as Brampton. “This is just reflective of the fact that the system is in crisis,” he said. “We keep borrowing resources from areas that aren’t as hard-hit.”