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COVID-19: New measures to protect seniors at long-term care homes
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Tiffany Crawford
Publishing date:
March 21, 2020 • 1 minute
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Vancouver health officials are ordering strict new measures to protect seniors in long-term care homes.Vancouver Coastal Health’s medical health officer, Dr. Althea Hayden, has temporarily ordered all care workers to stop working at multiple cares homes. They are now only allowed to work at one.
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The order also requires facilities to deny access to all visitors to the facility, with the limited exception of immediate family members and the spiritual adviser of residents who are clinically assessed to be at the end of their lives.
It also prohibits resident transfers between health care facilities unless approved by a health official. Those on a wait-list for transfer won’t lose their place.
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VCH will also prioritize admissions to long-term care from acute care over those from community where possible, and temporarily suspend all health authority operated/funded home and community care adult day programs.Advertisement
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All groups and social activities must be cancelled at all care homes.Hayden says the order affects all licensed long-term care facilities in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority region. Under the Public Health Act, health officials are given powers to enact and enforce such orders.
Three long-term care facilities in the VCH region and one in the Fraser Health Authority region have confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19.
The order comes into force within three days and remains in effect until further notice.
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