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There were only nine patients with COVID-19 in Windsor Regional Hospital on Friday.
Yet, starting Monday, elective surgery will be cancelled, for the third time in the last year.
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We’re not preparing for a surge here. It’s to accommodate patients from Toronto, Ottawa and other cities where cases are soaring.
Like the third lockdown announced last week and the second stay-at-home order this week, largely to check runaway spread in other regions, Ontario’s edict cancelling elective surgeries will be bitter news to people whose procedures are postponed, God forbid, a second or third time.
WINDSOR, ONT. A free webinar has been designed to help healthcare workers manage the stresses of the pandemic and offer coping strategies to support their mental health. Homewood Health is putting on the webinars which will be offered in English and French starting Tuesday to support healthcare providers and workers across Canada. “Certain things that are impacting health care workers and front line health care workers that are different or more exacerbated than the average person,” Sean Slater, vice president of market at Homewood Health, said. Participants will have an opportunity to focus on different feelings that make be causing them stress along with topics such as trauma burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury.
WINDSOR, ONT. Frustrated by naysayers and anti-mask protestors, executives at Windsor Regional Hospital asked local media to come into the ICU for a brief, physically distant tour. “It’s just surreal and unreal,” says Jen Hurst a registered nurse, with seven years’ experience, working on 4 North inside the Met Campus. “I wish people in the community could literally walk in my shoes and see what I see,” she says. Hurst says the physical changes to the floor, including venting throughout and rooms divided by sealed tarps are actually a comfort because she knows it’s for all their safety.