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  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 ca...

Some new provincial rules are taking effect to create more space in hospitals across Ontario during the third wave of COVID-19. The province wants to encourage patients waiting for a long-term care bed to settle for a spot at a long-term care home that may not be their first choice. Those patients are what’s called Alternate Level of Care or ALC, and normally pay a daily fee while waiting for a care home bed to open up. The province says it is waiving those fees for ALC patients until they can be transferred to their home of choice. Patients who accept these placements will keep their prior...

Author of the article: Hannah MacLeod Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  2 minute read  •  Article content In response to escalating bed capacity challenges across the province and a Ministry of Health directive issued on April 20 requiring all non-emergent and non-urgent elective surgeries and procedures to be ceased, the three hospital corporations in Grey Bruce are increasing bed capacity and ramping down elective surgeries and procedures beginning this week. The postponement of elective surgeries is necessary to ensure hospital staff are available to provide ...

COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Vanderhoof and Fort St.James SHARE ON: Sara Guenther, the first resident in Stuart Nechako Manor to receive the COVID Vaccine (Photo provided by Northern Health) Gertie Gardner, first long-term care resident in Fort St. James to receive the COVID-19 immunization (Photo provided by Northern Health) Vanderhoof and Fort St.James have received shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine and held their first vaccination clinics. In Fort St.James the clinics were hosted for long-term care residents, Alternate Level of Care residents awaiting long-term placement and staff at Stuar...