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A $5.9-million provincial funding boost will help the London-area paramedic service expand its paramedicine program to reach more vulnerable patients in the community.
When the program was launched by the Middlesex-London Paramedic Service, it focused on community patients in London and Middlesex County diagnosed with chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes. It also now offers care and pain and other symptom relief to patients in palliative care.
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The program’s main goal is to provide services to patients in their homes to reduce unnecessary visits to hospital emergency rooms. About 100 people are part of the program.
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EXETER – Huron Perth Public Health (HPPH) declared the COVID-19 outbreak at Exeter Villa Retirement Living and Long-Term Care Home over as of Jan. 24.
“We are very pleased to declare this outbreak over and want to commend the staff for their hard work and dedication during this challenging time,” said HPPH’s medical officer of health Dr. Miriam Klassen.
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The facility experienced a total of 50 confirmed cases. On the long-term side, there were 36 total confirmed cases in residents and 11 confirmed cases in staff.
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Outbreaks at Caressant Care’s long-term care and retirement home in Listowel have been linked to the deaths of two more residents, public health officials confirmed Wednesday.
The outbreaks, declared at the retirement home Jan. 7 and an adjoining long-term care home Jan. 10, have now killed 12 people, increasing the number of COVID-related deaths in Huron and Perth counties since March to 38.
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According to numbers from Huron Perth public health published Wednesday, data that’s up to date as of 1:30 p.m. the day before, the outbreaks have infected 73 residents and 35 staff members.
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Nearly 20 residents from a long-term care and retirement home in Listowel facing two serious COVID-19 outbreaks have been moved to area hospitals this week, health officials say.
Karl Ellis, the chief executive of the Listowel Wingham Hospital Alliance, one of the local health-care partners responding to the outbreak at Caressant Care, said during a public health update Thursday that 19 residents have so far been removed from the home.
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“There has been a lot of support from (health-care) providers across Huron and Perth (counties) and Grey-Bruce,” he said. “We believe, between moving patients out of that facility and the extra staffing that (has been) brought in, that we’ve stabilized the situation in that home.”
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Long-term care and retirement home residents are continuing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, public health officials said Thursday.
Dr. Joyce Lock, Southwestern public health’s medical officer of health, said the unit is on track to complete the administration of 600 first doses to residents in the region.
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While the information is a positive, she did note there is a “very limited” local supply, prompting public health’s focus on inoculating residents.
The update came after Pfizer announced that expected shipments of the vaccine to Canada and Europe would be delayed.