Once 35 weeks of construction were completed, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) unveiled the refurbished 66 Wellington Street Community Dialysis Clinic.
The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie, along with many other Ontario hospitals, is dealing with a backlog of cataract surgeries and other surgical procedures caused by operating room closures during the pandemic.
As capacity pressures increase, hospitals welcome a new policy that provides more options to move patients into long-term care homes, even if their preferred spots haven t opened up.
Effective Monday, Aug. 8, admitted patients are allowed one visitor per day, seven days a week for three hours. Previously visitors could only remain with a patient for one hour.