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Outbreak at Listowel, Ont , hospital forces pause on medicine unit admissions
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WINGHAM, ONT. Seven staff members and three patients at the Listowel Memorial Hospital’s second floor Medicine Unit have contracted COVID-19. Hospital CEO, Karl Ellis confirmed the outbreak Wednesday afternoon. Ellis says all the new cases have been reported this week. All staff and physicians that have worked at the hospital since Dec. 11, are being requested to have a COVID test. Admissions to the medicine unit are longer being accepted, and patients that require admission will either be taken care of on the first floor complex care unit, or be redirected to neighbouring hospitals. Ellis says the COVID outbreak hasn’t led to any staff shortages yet, and that no patients will have be transferred to other hospitals, right now.
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A second hospital outbreak has been declared in Perth County, the latest on the second floor medicine unit of Listowel Memorial Hospital.
According to the Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance, three patients and seven staff members have so far tested positive for COVID-19.
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Karl Ellis, the hospital group’s chief executive, said those tests were done on the weekend and “the bulk” came back Wednesday when the outbreak was officially declared.
All staff and physicians that have worked in Listowel Memorial Hospital since Dec. 11 will now be tested for COVID-19 and the hospital is working closely with Huron Perth public health to respond to the outbreak.
LISTOWEL, ONT. Seventy-seven-year-old Ivan Suggitt tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 29. His daughter says things went downhill very quickly from there. “He was admitted to hospital on Friday (Nov. 30). He was stable. His oxygen was monitoring well. We got the call on Friday (Dec. 4), that he was getting worse, and within 24 hours, he was dead,” explains his daughter, Dr. Terry Suggitt. Terry, who is a physician at Listowel Memorial Hospital, wouldn’t get a chance to say goodbye to her father. No one in their family did, because her husband, two children, and mother all contracted COVID-19 and have been in quarantine for the past two weeks.
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