Exclusive | Boss resigns from Vancouver care home for Chinese elders, where 41 residents died in coronavirus tragedy
- Angela Millar has resigned as executive director of Little Mountain Place, scene of British Columbia’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreak, the SCMP has learned
- In all, 99 of 114 residents at the care home contracted Covid-19
The executive director of Vancouver’s Little Mountain Place care home has resigned from the facility where 41 elderly residents recently died after being infected with Covid-19, in British Columbia’s deadliest outbreak of the pandemic, the South China Morning Post has learned.
Ninety-nine of the home’s 114 residents, who were mostly elders from the Chinese community, contracted the virus, as well as 72 staff members. The outbreak, which began on November 22, was declared over on January 29.
A person familiar with the situation at the care home told the SCMP that executive director Angela Millar will step down, effective Monday.
The Vancouver Coastal Health authority, which oversees Little Mountain Place, confirmed on Friday that Millar had quit.
“Little Mountain Place recently notified Vancouver Coastal Health that its administrator submitted her resignation,” the authority said.
“To support Little Mountain Place during this transition and to ensure residents continue to receive the ongoing patient-centred care they need, Vancouver Coastal Health has provided Little Mountain Place with an interim administrator.”