{"id":48181,"date":"2025-07-08T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48181\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:11:08","slug":"ontario-long-term-care-worker-charged-in-death-of-resident-who-was-given-wrong-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48181\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario long-term care worker charged in death of resident who was given wrong medications"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman has been charged in connection with the death of an elderly man after a medication dispensing error in a Northern Ontario long-term care residence.<\/p>\n

Michelle Biglow, 62, faces a count of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, the Ontario Provincial Police said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n

The name of the woman charged by the OPP matches that of a registered practical nurse who resigned from the College of Nurses of Ontario on March 28 of this year.<\/p>\n

The OPP said the charge stemmed from the death last year of a 93-year-old man living at a long-term care facility in the town of Iroquois Falls. The police said an incident occurred on May 17, 2024 that caused \u201cmedical distress\u201d in the man. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died on May 24.<\/p>\n

No further details were provided, but the only LTC facility in Iroquois Falls is the 69-bed South Centennial Manor. According to a source, the case involved medications wrongfully dispensed at South Centennial.<\/p>\n

The Globe and Mail is not disclosing the name of the source because they were not authorized to speak with the media.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> by the Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care, an inspection was conducted at South Centennial between June 4 and 6, 2024, after a medication incident involving a resident.<\/p>\n

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93-year-old Roger Sauv\u00e9 of Iroquois Falls died on May 24, 2024, at Anson General Hospital.Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cA registered staff member administered medications to several residents and did not follow the home\u2019s medication administration policies,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, one of the residents received the wrong medications causing a change in their health status.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report added that a second staffer responded to the problem by giving the resident a medication that was also not appropriate for them.<\/p>\n

Both staffers acknowledged that they had failed to make sure that the resident wouldn\u2019t receive the wrong medications, says the report, dated June 12, 2024. <\/p>\n

\u201cFailure to ensure that registered staff members followed the home\u2019s medication policies and that drugs administered to residents were prescribed for them, resulted in harm to a resident and put other residents in the home at risk of harm due to unsafe medication practices,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

The document also mentioned that a staffer was involved in two separate medication incidents over a month. It was not clear from the report whether this was one of the employees mentioned in the other incident.<\/p>\n

The LTC\u2019s licensee, Anson General Hospital in Iroquois Falls, was ordered to ensure that registered staff who administer drugs be trained on the home\u2019s policies relating to medication management system. The licensee was also asked to audit medications administration three times a week for at least a month.<\/p>\n

A follow-up report<\/a>, dated Aug. 26, said the home had complied with the previous inspection\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n

Iroquois Falls is 70 kilometres northeast of Timmins.<\/p>\n

According to a funeral home notice, 93-year-old Roger Sauv\u00e9 of Iroquois Falls died on May 24, 2024, at Anson General Hospital, in Iroquois Falls. He was a long-time paper mill employee and member of Knights of Columbus who was survived by five children, 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

The source confirmed that Mr. Sauv\u00e9 is the man who died at South Centennial.<\/p>\n

A director at South Centennial Manor declined to comment, hanging up the phone without disclosing her name.<\/p>\n

Paul Chatelain, Anson General Hospital\u2019s chief executive officer and long-term care administrator, didn\u2019t respond to voicemail and e-mail messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged in connection with the death of an elderly man after a medication dispensing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-48181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}