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Health officials are concerned about the effects of the surge in COVID-19 cases on Timmins and District Hospital.
In a joint statement,hospital CEO Kate Fyfe and medical officer of health Dr. Lianne Catton say that as of Saturday afternoon, ten COVID-19 patients have been admitted to the hospital. It doubled in one day.
Fyfe says those patients are younger and sicker than those during the previous two waves. The average age is 42.
Dr. Catton says the variant first identified in the UK is to blame for most of those cases.
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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.”