Simkin Centre nursing home in Winnipeg slammed by COVID outbreak among staff
Winnipeg’s largest Jewish long-term care home, the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre, is dealing with a substantial COVID outbreak. It started before Christmas, with a couple of staff members who worked in different parts of the facility, including the kitchen and two of the residents’ wings. This latest wave saw the number of positive cases […]
Winnipeg long-term care home residents who died of COVID are remembered in a ceremony
Gwen Nelko Esther Shuster Mary D. Turner The rain had stopped the morning of Oct. 27, as one by one the names of those who had died of COVID while residents of the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre in Winnipeg were read. Lena Parisien Sheila Strieffler Luba Zalkind Irene Fonseth There were 11 elderly people […]
