Donna Mehlenbacher has been in rehabilitation at the LaSalle Hospital in Montreal’s LaSalle borough for more than two weeks, following knee replacement surgery.

She says most of the staff treat her well; she knows first-hand what standard care should be.

“I did this for a living, back in the early ’80s in nursing,” she told Global News.

But the 83-year-old said she’s shocked at the level of care she’s now receiving in the rehab ward at the hospital.

“It’s just disgusting that we are put in this situation, and we shouldn’t have to be,” she said.

Mehlenbacher is one of several patients and employees in that ward who spoke to Global News about what they say are dismal sanitary conditions, poor treatment and patient neglect.

Mehlenbacher said she’s been left in soiled diapers multiple ti

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