Health Dept. Ignored Care Home Evictions, Seniors Left in ERs
- NL NDP
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
For Immediate Release
May 22, 2025
NL NDP Leader Jim Dinn (St. John’s Centre) is calling out government for not addressing seniors in personal care homes being evicted - what he says is an ‘inhuman practice’.
Dinn highlights that the Auditor General (AG) reported at least 254 evictions from personal care homes between 2022 and 2024. He emphasizes that this is not only deeply unfair to seniors, but it also places an emotional burden on families who live in fear that their loved ones could be forced out of what should be a safe home.
“At least 91 residents were those who had to go to emergency and then weren't accepted back by their personal care home. What a disrespectful way to treat a senior especially with our emergency rooms notoriously full creating a domino effect in the health care system. Why was this inhuman practice not addressed by the Department of Health?” Dinn asked.
Dinn demanded government create a plan so that no one living in a personal care home would be left on their own with no support. He says that this can be done by adding personal care homes to the Residential Tenancies Act.
“We don’t know if some of those people needed to be at emergency or not. We know one 84-year-old who was left at the Health Sciences Centre emergency for 20 days with no plan,” Dinn explained. “They and their families are placed under extreme stress trying to find a placement. This person was so greatly impacted being left in a small room for those days they lost the ability to walk.”
He asked, “Will this government amend the residential tenancies act to protect seniors?”
Dinn adds that the NL NDP continues to call for the Residential Tenancies Act to be updated and followed as it should be to protect all who avail of it.
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For further information, contact Stephanie Curran, Media and Communications Officer, NDP Caucus at 330-0328 (o), or stephaniecurran@gov.nl.ca
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