{"id":6743,"date":"2016-11-14T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=6743"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:49:43","slug":"monitoring-clusters-and-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/quality-safety\/reporting\/monitoring-clusters-and-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Clusters and Outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Hospital sometimes experiences an increased number of <a href=\"\/en\/quality-safety\/reporting\/indicator-reporting\/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-mrsa\/\">MRSA<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/en\/quality-safety\/reporting\/indicator-reporting\/clostridium-difficile-c-difficile\/\">Clostridium <em>difficile<\/em><\/a> cases on its in-patient units. Our healthcare teams work hard to reduce their occurrence and when cases are detected, special measures are put in place to reduce their spread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isolating patients who have diarrhea in private rooms when possible<\/li>\n<li>Using a bleach solution to clean the environment<\/li>\n<li>Auditing healthcare professionals to ensure equipment and hands are cleaned between patients<\/li>\n<li>Reminders to staff, patients and visitors that frequent hand washing is the best way to prevent infection<\/li>\n<li>Reducing unnecessary traffic and congestion in the unit experiencing the increase in cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"covid_ob\">Outbreaks<\/h2>\n<p>The Ontario government strongly encourages all hospitals to report outbreaks and outbreak-associated cases of MRSA,\u00a0 and <em>C.difficile <\/em>to their local public health unit when the definition of an outbreak is met in their facility. For details of this definition, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ministry website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>COVID-19 outbreaks<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-center table-responsive\">\n<table class=\"table text-center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td><strong>Civic Campus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>General Campus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Riverside Campus<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>COVID-19<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>WEV 5\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>6W<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"text-center table-responsive\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Clusters<\/h2>\n<p>The Ottawa Hospital is committed to providing patients and their visitors with the information they need to play a more significant role in their care and the care of their loved ones.\u00a0 As a result, the hospital goes a step beyond ministry requirements, and reports on units that are experiencing a greater than average number of cases but have not reached outbreak levels.<\/p>\n<h2>In-patient units currently on alert<\/h2>\n<div class=\"text-center table-responsive\">\n<table class=\"table text-center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td><strong>Civic Campus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>General Campus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Riverside Campus<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>MRSA<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>C. difficile<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>Norovirus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>Influenza A<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>A5,B5\/AMA,WEV5<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"ui-provider ed awb awc awd awe awf awg awh awi awj awk awl awm awn awo awp awq awr aws awt awu awv aww awx awy awz axa axb axc axd axe axf axg axh axi\" dir=\"ltr\">5NW<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>Respiratory outbreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>RSV<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>S. aureus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>Rhinovirus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>Parainfluenza Virus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 73px;\"><strong>Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>* Identified as meeting Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care definition of an outbreak<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we work to manage clusters and outbreaks, we ask that patients and visitors please respect our Infection Control Visitor protocols for those in-patient units on alert.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout-text-inner toh-green\">\n<h3 class=\"callout-text-inner-title\">Please Note!<\/h3>\n<p class=\"callout-text\">When you visit, please clean your hands at one of the many hand washing stations throughout the hospital before, during and after your visit.\u00a0 If you are unwell, please do not visit patients in the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Hospital sometimes experiences an increased number of MRSA, and Clostridium difficile cases on its in-patient units. Our healthcare teams work hard to reduce their occurrence and when cases are detected, special measures are put in place to reduce their spread. 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