(CBC) – Gratton— who had a variety of health problems, including kidney failure and heart disease— spent a night in the emergency room before being moved to a bed in a hallway on the seventh floor.

“There were no lights, all the bulbs in that hallway had been completely removed. The only light we had was almost like a desk lamp that had been bolted to the wall,” Lynn said. 

“Patients are passing by, nurses are going by, no privacy, no compassion, no dignity.”

She said watching nurses using headlamps to examine her dad’s feet was “beyond ridiculous.” (Read More)