As of Wednesday, LHSC, St. Joseph’s Health Care, and the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital will be asking all patients to wear a mask in all clinical areas and care settings.
and St. Joseph’s Health Care will be recommending that incoming patients wear a mask in all clinical areas and care settings when meeting with or speaking directly to a health-care worker, including in emergency departments and waiting rooms.
“We’re not going to force patients to wear masks,” said Dr. Kevin Chan, corporate medical executive at LHSC. “But we will highly recommend that they do so.”However, masking will be required for staff and physicians in all direct patient contact in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.South of the city, the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital also announced that they would be reinstating masking in patient-care areas for staff, physicians and volunteers as of Wednesday.
Dr. Michael Silverman, chair/chief of infectious diseases in London and medical director of infection prevention and control and infectious diseases care program at St. Joseph’s said that “protecting our patients, residents, staff and community is paramount.”Interest rates expected to stay higher for longer. What that means for your mortgage
“We’ll change our decision either to increase masking or decrease masking based on those clinical requirements.”
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