{"id":145346,"date":"2023-10-19T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=145346"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:47:52","slug":"covid-outbreak-in-the-north-wing-of-bracebridge-hospital-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/covid-outbreak-in-the-north-wing-of-bracebridge-hospital-over\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID outbreak in the north wing of Bracebridge hospital over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), in collaboration with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, has confirmed the COVID outbreak on North Wing at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital (SMMH) Site is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak lasted 12 days, and in total 13 patient cases and seven staff cases were attributed to the outbreak.&nbsp;Visiting to North Wing has resumed in line with MAHC\u2019s current visiting policy that allows an inpatient to have two visitors per day between 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOutbreaks are declared over when transmission is under control and no further cases are unexpectedly detected,\u201d says President &amp; CEO Cheryl Harrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the outbreak status being lifted, there are patients who remain COVID positive or are being monitored for exposure that remain in isolation and cannot have visitors except for their essential caregiver as approved by special circumstance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs respiratory illness season is upon is, it\u2019s especially important that visitors and patients wear masks at all times in the hospital to reduce the risk of infection,\u201d says Harrison. \u201cA reminder that visitors should always check the visiting status for their loved one at the nursing station or the by phoning the nursing team prior to visiting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAHC appreciates the hard work of our teams from nursing to Infection Prevention &amp; Control and Environmental Services to manage the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), in collaboration with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, has confirmed the COVID outbreak on North Wing at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital (SMMH) Site is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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