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COVID-19 outbreak declared at KGH
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COVID-19 outbreak declared at KGH
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Outpatients who answer “yes” to the questions will be “managed with extra precautions,” and inpatients who answer “yes” will be placed under quarantine for eight days.
The extra screening questions come as COVID-19 prevalence continues to rise both across the region and the province, the release said. The entrance to a COVID-19 assessment clinic at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston. Photo by Handout photo
“(Kingston Health Sciences Centre) requires patients and visitors alike to answer these questions due to the continued increase of community spread of COVID-19 throughout the Kingston area and additional regions across Ontario entering red and grey status,” Dr. Gerald Evans, the organization’s medical director of infection control, said in a written statement.
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Outpatients who answer “yes” to the questions will be “managed with extra precautions,” and inpatients who answer “yes” will be placed under quarantine for eight days.
The extra screening questions come as COVID-19 prevalence continues to rise both across the region and the province, the release said. The entrance to a COVID-19 assessment clinic at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston. Photo by Handout photo
“(Kingston Health Sciences Centre) requires patients and visitors alike to answer these questions due to the continued increase of community spread of COVID-19 throughout the Kingston area and additional regions across Ontario entering red and grey status,” Dr. Gerald Evans, the organization’s medical director of infection control, said in a written statement.
Author of the article: The Whig-Standard
Publishing date: Dec 12, 2020 • December 12, 2020 • 2 minute read
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Kingston Health Sciences Centre will now begin screening visitors to both of its hospital sites for travel outside the province, into red or lockdown (grey) communities within the province, or interactions with people from those locations.
Patients and visiting family members at both Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital will now be asked two additional questions during COVID-19 screening: whether they’ve travelled outside of Ontario in the past 14 days, or if they have visited, resided in or had guests from a location in red or lockdown (grey) status or from outside Ontario.
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