Canniff said he was taken in a taxi to the Travelodge in Leduc.
Edmonton hospital patient had been hoping for a care home. He wound up at a hotel instead | CBC News LoadedBlair Canniff had been a patient at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for approximately six months when he said a social worker told him he was going to be moved. He thought he was going to assisted living but that's not where they dropped him off.
On March 4, he said he was placed in a taxi that took him to a Travelodge in Leduc, roughly 35 kilometres south of Edmonton. CBC News spoke with a front desk staff worker who reiterated the Travelodge was a hotel, not a long-term care facility, with rooms that could be booked online by the general public.
She adds that, typically, a patient needing assisted living undergoes an assessment to determine the best place for them and their family is given three options, which they then rank, and when a space opens up, that person is moved there.
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