In any case, Corrente represents Meadow Park Long Term Care in London, Ont., the care home where the Canadian HCSK Wettlaufer killed the last of her eight elderly victims, 75-year-old Arpad Horvath. Corrente went over the numbers that Yorker has found over the years, 131 cases world-wide since 1970 where health-care providers have been prosecuted for murder or assault. “So,” said Corrente, “of 131 prosecutions globally since the 1970s, only two were in Canada?”“Yes,” Yorker replied. Health-care workers should be better educated about what exactly is an unexpected death, especially in a care home, where death is hardly a stranger. Since Yorker did her 2006 study, there have been 41 new cases of HCSK.

Source: National Post September 12, 2018 21:40 UTC