Toronto long-term care home where 81 residents died of COVID-19 turned down advice from health officials to use “baby monitors” and “room dividers” to help create up to 20 potentially life-saving rooms for sickened residents, according to emails from Toronto Public Health.The emails provide new details on how Tendercare Living Centre — a long-term care home in Scarborough — failed to enact an emergency plan to use the building’s fourth floor to isolate infected residents.The COVID-19 outbreak began on Dec.
4, 2020, at Tendercare and would become the deadliest in the province.According to the emails, officials from Scarborough Health Network (SHN) and TPH were notified by Tendercare on Dec.