{"id":52470,"date":"2020-03-17T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=52470"},"modified":"2020-03-17T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:43:55","slug":"ottawa-area-hospitals-postpone-non-urgent-surgeries-procedures-and-programming-to-prepare-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/ottawa-area-hospitals-postpone-non-urgent-surgeries-procedures-and-programming-to-prepare-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa area hospitals postpone non-urgent surgeries, procedures and programming to prepare for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is a joint message from the Ottawa area hospitals: Bruy\u00e8re, CHEO, Montfort, The Ottawa Hospital, The Royal, The University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Queensway Carleton Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>OTTAWA \u2013 March 17, 2020 \u2013<\/strong> As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to evolve locally, Ottawa area hospitals are taking further action to ensure the health and safety of patients, families and our workforce. In-line with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mohltc\/en\/2020\/03\/ontario-hospitals-asked-to-take-a-planned-approach-to-ramping-down-elective-surgeries.html\">guidance from the Ontario Ministry of Health<\/a>, hospitals in the Ottawa area are taking a planned approach to postpone non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and outpatient programming and clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals are always here to care for patients, and are working together to find solutions to protect safety, while continuing to provide excellent care. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Surgeries, procedures, and outpatient programming and clinics to be postponed will be selected on a set of clear criteria to carefully consider the health-care needs of our patients while maintaining their safety. Hospital staff are in the process of notifying patients, so that they have all the information they need regarding their care.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing activity in operating rooms and other areas of the hospital allows the hospitals to be ready to take on potential COVID-19 cases, as the situation continues to evolve. Hospitals in the Ottawa area are also stepping up their infection prevention and control to help reduce the possible spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on each hospital&#8217;s response to COVID-19 can be found on their websites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruyere.org\/en\/covid19-visitors\">Bruy\u00e8re<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheo.on.ca\/en\/visiting-cheo\/covid-19.aspx\">CHEO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hopitalmontfort.com\/en\/montfort-and-novel-coronavirus\">Montfort<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/2019-novel-coronavirus-information-for-ottawa-hospital-patients-and-visitors\/\">The Ottawa Hospital<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroyal.ca\/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-information-clients-and-visitors\">The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawaheart.ca\/news\/important-message-visitors-what-know-coming-heart-institute\">The University of Ottawa Heart Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qch.on.ca\/COVID\">Queensway Carleton Hospital<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Media contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruy\u00e8re:<\/strong><br \/>\nJesse Cressman Dickinson, <a href=\"mailto:jcressmandickinson@bruyere.org\">jcressmandickinson@bruyere.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHEO:<\/strong><br \/>\nPaddy Moore, <a href=\"mailto:pmoore@cheo.on.ca\">pmoore@cheo.on.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Montfort:<\/strong><br \/>\nGenevi\u00e8ve Picard, <a href=\"mailto:genevievepicard@montfort.on.ca\">genevievepicard@montfort.on.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ottawa Hospital:<\/strong><br \/>\nMichaela Schreiter, <a href=\"mailto:mschreiter@toh.ca\">mschreiter@toh.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Royal:<\/strong><br \/>\nKaren Monaghan, <a href=\"mailto:karen.monaghan@theroyal.ca\">karen.monaghan@theroyal.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The University of Ottawa Heart Institute:<\/strong><br \/>\nLeigh B. Morris, <a href=\"mailto:lmorris@ottawaheart.ca\">lmorris@ottawaheart.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Queensway Carleton Hospital:<\/strong><br \/>\nAnn Fuller, <a href=\"mailto:afuller@qch.on.ca\">afuller@qch.on.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a joint message from the Ottawa area hospitals: Bruy\u00e8re, CHEO, Montfort, The Ottawa Hospital, The Royal, The University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Queensway Carleton Hospital. OTTAWA \u2013 March 17, 2020 \u2013 As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to evolve locally, Ottawa area hospitals are taking further action to ensure the health and safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}