Social agency that moved patient to motel appeals for help; Alberta removes it from list [Video]

Contentment Social Services, the organization that took a stroke patient from an Edmonton hospital to a Leduc motel, told Global News it’s trying to provide home care services to people who need help and that it’s barely getting by financially.

Questions arose around the non-profit social agency after Blair Canniff, 62, who was a patient at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for about six months, was discharged and then moved to a Travelodge motel.

Canniff was in a wheelchair after suffering a stroke. His wife said he was told by a social worker in early March that he was being moved to different lodging but was surprised to learn it was a motel room that was not set up for someone in a wheelchair.

“He called me to help,” Canniff’s wife, Myna Manniapik, said. “He was in the bathroom … and had been sitting there for some time. He said he kept trying to call the nurses and they …