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Facing “alarming” increases in the number of COVID-19 patients and a potentially critical shortage of acute and critical care beds, Windsor Regional Hospital is indefinitely cancelling all non-urgent surgeries.
Hospital officials said Tuesday that all elective surgeries about 50 a day will be postponed starting Jan. 4.
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“The current situation with COVID-19 in our hospital and in our community is creating significant implications for our hospital and our ICU bed occupancy, as well as human resource limitations given the need to support services outside the operating rooms and/or hospital,” said Dr. Wassim Saad, the hospital’s chief of staff.
March 11 The WHO declares the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.
March 12 Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces publicly funded schools will be closed for two weeks following March Break.
March 17 Ontario declares a Health State of Emergency,
March 20 First case of COVID-19 confirmed in Windsor-Essex.
March 21 The Canada/U.S. land border is closed to all discretionary travel.
March 24 Premier Ford orders all non-essential businesses in Ontario to close.
March 31 The province announces schools will remain closed until at least May.
April 18 Windsor Regional Hospital opens a field hospital at St. Clair College’s SportsPlex.
April 22 The province mandates mass testing in all long-term care homes. Health teams do about 700 swabs a day in local homes
Windsor Regional Hospital will postpone all non-urgent, pre-scheduled elective surgeries for an indefinite period, effective January 4th, 2021.
The hospital says the decision was necessary due to in-hospital admissions of patients with COVID-19 continuing to rise at an “alarming rate” and a potentially critical shortage of available acute care beds, including critical care beds.
This amounts to an approximate 50% reduction in surgical volumes.
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“The current situation with COVID-19 in our hospital and in our community is creating significant implications for our hospital and our ICU bed occupancy, as well as human resource limitations given the need to support services outside the Operating Rooms and/or hospital,” said WRH Chief of Staff Dr. Wassim Saad.
Cross-border worker feels blessed to receive COVID-19 vaccine
While Windsor-Essex saw the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out on Tuesday, some health care workers who work on the other side of the border got a bit of a head start.
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Krista Wahby, who works at a Detroit hospital, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.(CBC) comments
While Windsor-Essex saw the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out on Tuesday, some health care workers who work on the other side of the border got a bit of a head start.
Krista Wahby, a critical care pharmacy specialist at the Detroit Medical Center s Harper University Hospital, received the vaccine on Friday afternoon.
Author of the article: Taylor Campbell
Publishing date: Dec 23, 2020 • December 23, 2020 • 6 minute read • Krystal Meloche, a personal support worker at Seasons Belle River gets an elbow bump from Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj after she was the first person in Windsor to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the St. Clair College SportsPlex on Dec. 22, 2020. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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When Krystal Meloche rolled up her sleeve to receive the first COVID-19 vaccination in Windsor-Essex Tuesday morning, she did it not only to protect the residents she cares for at a Belle River retirement home, but also in memory of her father.