The announcement of Lynne McVey’s impending departure comes after coroner Géhane Kamel released the report of her inquest into the high death toll in Quebec nursing homes during the first wave of the pandemic
The head of the Montreal health authority that responded to the pandemic disaster at the Herron nursing home will leave her job in July, in the wake of a coroner’s report that criticized her handling of the crisis.
Ms. McVey’s organization, known by the initials CIUSSS ODM, is the health authority for the western part of the island of Montreal, a territory that includes the privately-owned Herron care home. For nearly two weeks afterward, the situation remained chaotic as the CIUSSS and Herron’s owners quarreled over who was in charge. “Several deaths could possibly have been avoided in the first days of April if things had unfolded differently,” the coroner wrote in her report.
Her report also cast doubts about Ms. McVey’s decision to call the police to investigate Herron on April 11, around 1:35 a.m. The stated reason was that the CIUSSS suspected potential negligence, having just discovered that 31 Herron residents had died during the pandemic, a bigger number than officials realized.
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