All 10 rooms at the Kentville, N.S., site expected to be available again by sometime in April.
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Posted: Dec 19, 2020 10:14 AM AT | Last Updated: February 4
A flood at a hospice in the Annapolis Valley in December forced staff to relocate 6 patients.(Brian MacKay/CBC)
Rooms will begin reopening next month at Valley Hospice in Kentville, N.S., following a recent flood at the site.
Health Minister Leo Glavine said Thursday that remediation work at the hospice is ongoing and five of the 10 rooms were not damaged.
Five rooms will reopen in March, with the other five slated to be available again in early April.
By Arthur Vidro
Right after Election Day my right side started hurting badly. I eventually phoned for an appointment with a surgeon at Valley Regional Hospital who had operated on my other side in 2016 and warned me at the time that this might happen.
I took the earliest available appointment, Dec. 3. That day, the doctor saw me, confirmed my fear, and we agreed on surgery as the smartest course.
Usually this sort of surgery is scheduled a month or more in advance. But I was lucky. There was an opening just four days away.
âSign me up,â I said.
Any wait would have been lengthy. The schedules of the hospital and of the surgeon precluded any other date in December.
OC issues unprecedented order to hospitals against diverting ambulances amid COVID surge
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Share: An unprecedented order has been issued in Orange County to prevent hospitals from diverting ambulances to other facilities. The move comes after the county shattered COVID-19 patient admittance records,
The county reported 23 fatalities on Wednesday, the same day frontline workers in the county received COVID-19 vaccinations. The most recent fatalities, which date back to earlier this month, raised the death toll to 1,718.
The region also logged 3,231 new diagnoses of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the cumulative case total to 111,168.
Orange County continues to set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations, while county officials have rolled out mobile field hospitals to handle the surge in patients.
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December 16, 2020
The OC Health Care Agency is deploying mobile field hospitals (MFHs) to local hospitals this week to support facilities overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 patients.
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The County reported 2,173 more coronavirus cases on Tuesday with 10.4 percent of adult intensive care unit beds available in the local hospital system.
The mobile units can expand current hospital capacity by adding more beds to existing grounds. They are housed in large trailers and contain canvas tents with hard flooring and temperature-controlled units equipped with running water, toilets and showers, generators and air purifiers. The Health Care Agency has eight trailers to support at least 200 patient beds.