{"id":1111,"date":"2024-10-29T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-coto.pantheonsite.io\/uncategorized\/2024-college-response-to-the-coroners-report-deaths-from-transfer-pole\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:43:47","slug":"2024-college-response-to-the-coroners-report-deaths-from-transfer-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/news-articles\/2024-college-response-to-the-coroners-report-deaths-from-transfer-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 College Response to the Coroner’s Report: Deaths from Transfer Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario requested the College educate occupational therapists about the dangers of transfer poles. The Geriatric and Long-Term Care Death Review Committee (GLTCRC) released a report concerning a death where the use of a transfer pole was a contributing factor. In this report, the GLTCRC made six recommendations, including providing education to occupational therapists about the potential dangers associated with the use of transfer poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a02024 College Response to the Coroner\u2019s Report: Deaths from Transfer Pole<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a practice resource intended to alert occupational therapists to those dangers, assist them in identifying risks associated with recommending the use of transfer poles, and support their decision-making if the client owns or requires the use of a transfer pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A French version of the College Response to the Coroner\u2019s Report will be posted under Standards and Resources as soon as it is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have any questions about this practice resource, please contact practice@coto.org<\/a><\/strong> or 1-800-890-6570\/416-214-1177 x240.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario requested the College educate occupational therapists about the dangers of transfer poles. The Geriatric and Long-Term Care Death Review Committee (GLTCRC) released a report concerning a death where the use of a transfer pole was a contributing factor. In this report, the GLTCRC made six recommendations, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}