An Edmonton family is frustrated and upset after a 62-year-old man who had been in hospital with care needs was sent to stay at a hotel.
Blair Canniff had been a patient at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for roughly six months when he said a social worker told him he was going to be moved.
“They told me I was going to a facility for long-term care,” Canniff recalled of the conversation. “They told me where it was, in Leduc, and that’s all I knew.”
With a paralyzed left side after a stroke, Canniff uses a wheelchair and said he had been expecting to move
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