According
to an Ontario coroner’s report into a 2009 Thunder Bay death, Thunder
Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre managers met with the coroner and a
family member of the deceased in 2010 and said the hospital would come
up with a communication strategy to deal with at-risk discharged
patients “to ensure a safe return home.”
to an Ontario coroner’s report into a 2009 Thunder Bay death, Thunder
Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre managers met with the coroner and a
family member of the deceased in 2010 and said the hospital would come
up with a communication strategy to deal with at-risk discharged
patients “to ensure a safe return home.”
The
hospital’s discharge practices are again under question following the
death of the 19-year-old First Nations man in September. His body was
found hours after his discharge, less than a kilometre from the
hospital in a secluded area of the Lakehead University campus. The death
is a suspected suicide.
The 2010 coroner’s investigation
probed the death of Kenneth Berg, 60, who disappeared after he was
discharged from the Thunder Bay hospital on Oct. 26, 2009.