Demand the Labrador & Newfoundland health care system provide Cheryl Hardy appropriate and compassionate care close to home in accordance with the recommendation of a seasoned geriatric psychiatrist and guidance of Alzheimer’s experts, who advise that isolating Alzheimer’s patients from loved ones causes a rapid decline in their condition  

Dr. John Haggie, NL Minister of Health and other officials of the Newfoundland & Labrador health care system, must move to prevent Labrador Grendel Health Center from barring Cheryl Hardy from treatment at her local healthcare facility, sending her over 500 km away from her home and family to find appropriate Alzheimer’s care. 

On March 4th, 2022, Cheryl Hardy was given a medical release from Labrador Grenfell Heath Center in Labrador City where she has been since last November dealing with her journey through Alzheimer’s Disease.

In advance of that meeting, her family was advised that they have decided Cheryl should be admitted to a Protective Care (lockdown) Unit, with the closest one being over 530.2 km away from her home of more than a half-century, her family and all her friends.

This is in spite of a very recent assessment of her by a geriatric psychiatrist, during which a Labrador-Grenfell Heath RN was present, that Cheryl did ‘not’ qualify to be admitted to protective care.

It is particularly ironic that Labrador-Grenfell Health, that operates the very same hospital Cheryl herself so tirelessly petitioned to have built, has now determined that she needs to be sent away, and that in spite of the volumes of evidence out there confirming the detrimental effects of isolating Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients from their loved ones, they are willing and able to do that which would ultimately amount to a rapid decline towards death.

This treatment of Cheryl is a systemic failure -  When comparing all Canadian provincial and territorial health care systems by The Conference Board of Canada, plus those of 15 peer countries, Newfoundland & Labrador was ranked the worst.

We petition not only for appropriate and compassionate care for Cheryl, but for the complete overhaul of the Newfoundland & Labrador health care system. 

We are all Cheryl Hardy!