WINNIPEG Acute care facilities in Manitoba will soon allow patients to identify one essential caregiver to accompany patients under new changes to hospital visitation rules. Lanette Siragusa, the chief nursing officer with shared Health, made the announcement during the province’s COVID-19 briefing on Monday. “Last month, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute shared with us a national policy guideline, where it looked at the role of essential caregivers, and we have used this guideline to update our visitor guidelines in acute care to ensure that our quality is always the best it can possibly be,” she said. Under the new guidance, patients can identify one “essential care partner” to provide in-person physical, psychological, and emotional support for them, Siragusa said.
WINNIPEG Over 300 more of Manitoba’s health-care workers have contracted COVID-19. According to the Manitoba government’s most recent surveillance information from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, since the start of the pandemic 1,149 of the province’s health-care workers have tested positive for the disease, which is 325 more cases than the week before. The province added that 867 of these workers have since recovered. Of these 1,149 health-care workers, 649 are allied health and support staff, 336 are nurses/licensed practical nurses, 44 are physicians and physicians-in-training and 22 are first responders. There are also 98 health-care workers whose jobs have not been identified. As for how the workers contracted the disease, the surveillance data, which monitors the intensity, geographical spread, characteristics and transmission of COVID-19, shows that 59.2 per cent got it from close contact with a known case and 1.1 per cent got it due to travel-related reasons. For 13.2
Funding boost transforms West End drop-in centre into full-time safe space
West End Winnipeggers now have a 24/7 drop-in centre after years of hoping and trying for one.
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The WE24 drop-in space is in the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre on Langside Street.(Google Street View)
West End Winnipeggers now have a 24/7 drop-in centre after years of hoping and trying for one.
The Manitoba government announced Friday that it will provide the Spence Neighbourhood Association annual funding of $300,000 to vastly expand the offerings at its current community drop-in space inside the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre on Langside Street.