Two nurses are being investigated by Winnipeg police and a family is suing two private care-home operators after a 63-year-old woman with dementia wrapped herself in a curtain and suffocated at Beacon Hill Lodge last year.
Irene Fontaine died alone in a room, trapped in a privacy curtain at the long-term care home where she lived, on Jan. 11, 2023 — her 63rd birthday.
She had been led to the unoccupied semi-private room by two nurses about an hour before she was found strangled in the curtain, Winnipeg police detectives allege in a court document.
They are investigating the two nurses who were working on
