Daughter wants answers after 84-year-old father with dementia wandered out of emergency room
Incident that left Glen Orvis walking outside for hours being investigated: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
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This article was published 07/03/2022 (1642 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
By the time they found him, 84-year-old Glen Orvis had walked nine kilometres through the cold and snow wearing a pair of Dockers shoes.
Glen, who has dementia, had wandered off hours earlier on Thursday after being dropped off by an ambulance at Winnipeg’s Concordia Hospital.
His daughter, a former health-care worker, said she knows how stressful a hospital setting can be. But Shelley Orvis wants answers — and changes that will prevent what happened to Glen from happening to someone else.
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