OTTAWA The Ottawa Hospital is opening a new off-site transitional care unit at an Ottawa long-term care home. The 55-bed unit opening the first week of May at West End Villa will be a place for patients to transition from hospital care to long-term care or other care in the community. While in the early days of the pandemic, health-care workers supported long-term care homes in need, now long-term care homes are supporting hospitals and helping us create care capacity for the most acutely ill, said Cameron Love, president of the Ottawa Hospital. This is a partnership that we can build on going forward, creating more opportunities for collaborative care models in the future.”
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OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 49 new cases COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, as the medical officer of health warns COVID-19 levels are rising at alarming rates in the community. Dr. Vera Etches issued the warning on Twitter as Ottawa s COVID-19 indicators inched closer to the red-control threshold, which would impose new restrictions on social gatherings, bars, restaurants and gyms. Ottawa s first community vaccination clinic is cause for celebration. But, COVID levels in our community are rising at alarming rates & we CAN T vaccinate our way out of this. But we CAN turn this around with our actions. Every action, by every person, matters. #SteadyAsSheGoespic.twitter.com/exGNNfxaGE
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says 39 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, continuing a trend of relatively stable daily case counts. According to OPH s COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 9,353 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city since the pandemic began. The weekly average of cases per 100,000 population one of the metrics used to judge Ottawa s colour status under the province s framework fell slightly from 30.9 to 28.8.
(Note: A previous version of this article said the per capita rate held steady at 30.9, however that particular figure on Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard had not updated at the time of writing, though others had.)