The program change at Joe Greenland Centre is to use the facility for what it was really meant to be. It was not designed for level III and IV care that we’ve delivered there for the last number of years. Since 2007 we’ve had very few residents there.
When this wing is renovated and converted into independent units, we don’t anticipate that we will have staff in that building. It will be like the other wing. There will be a caretaker and that sort of support.
What we anticipate is to expand the Elders Program for the entire community. Right now for the entire community of Aklavik there’s one home care worker. We anticipate that we could have up to three home care workers. We want to be able to run any elders day programming out of Joe Greenland Centre. We believe there are about 30 to 40 elders there in their homes who need support from home care workers with all sorts of things that home care support provides.
The question about whether this home care worker will require more skills, that’s not the information we have. We believe that those employees that are affected, HR rules require that we give them notice at the earliest possible opportunity when there are any contemplations of changes in jobs being considered. So that’s why they had to be given notice very early and they are all eligible to apply for not only these jobs but also any other jobs that come at the community as well as in the region or anywhere.