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(Bob McIntyre, MyTimminsNow.com)
Up to 30 patients from Timmins and District Hospital will soon be moving to the St. Mary’s Gardens retirement home.
They’re called “alternate level of care patients” – those awaiting placement in long-term care facilities.
TADH president and CEO Kate Fyfe says the move will give those patients a more appropriate setting, while freeing up beds at the Ross Avenue site in case of a surge of patients.
“It is COVID-19 related,” Fyfe adds, “however it is an initiative that the hospital had been working on for some time, even before the impacts of COVID.”