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Haliburton hospitals approved to ramp up non-urgent care

Five regional hospital partners have been approved to begin ramping up non-urgent care.

Hospitals in Haliburton, Campbellford, Lindsay, Northumberland and Peterborough will be collaborating on a gradual, phased approach to resuming non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and tests.

Acute care hospitals were directed to ramp down elective surgeries and non-urgent activities in March, in order to preserve system capacity to deal effectively with COVID-19.

The five partner hospitals will implement a staged plan early this month, that will allow each hospital to increase and decrease the amount of non-urgent care provided as circumstances allow.

President and CEO at Haliburton Highlands Health Services Carolyn Plummer says “patients will be prioritized based on risk and urgency and will be contacted as spaces become available”. Plummer thanks the community for their “continued understanding as they work to meet the needs of the community while ensuring they maintain the safety of staff and patients and have the capacity to respond to changes in local COVID-19 activity”.

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