In many of our facilities where we have commercial kitchens we have had difficulty providing a service of traditional foods, but this is one of the things we are working on in the Department of Health and Social Services, is to find mechanisms to ensure that individuals are getting traditional foods. We are always able to bring traditional foods in and cook them in the shared kitchens as opposed to the commercial kitchens. In many of our facilities we do have interpreters who can provide language services to those who are unilingual, and where they don't we try to make sure that there are other mechanisms.

As far as the ability for our clients or our residents who are living in one of our regional centres to travel back to the communities, it really depends on their acuity, how ill they are or what limitations they have on mobility. One of the reasons many people move to long-term care facilities is they are not capable of mobility or not capable of taking care of themselves.

I can say it happens on a regular basis; we do have people who are able to visit communities for short periods of times with different supports. This is something we have been able to facilitate with the proviso that depends really on the acuity of the patient and whether or not they have mobility capability in any capacity.