Province urged to look deeper at causes of violence, unsafe staffing levels to learn from horrific beating of St. Joseph’s Villa resident

HAMILTON, ON — Failure to protect Ontario long-term care home residents, like James Acker who suffered a severe beating at the hands of another resident at St. Joseph Villa in Dundas from all forms of assaults, “lies with the provincial government. To keep residents safer, the health ministry must look deeper into the systemic causes…