April 15, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Ontario government has ordered hospitals to ramp down elective surgeries and non-emergent/non-urgent care activities.
Headwaters Health Care Centre issued a joint statement last Friday (April 9) from the hospitals president and CEO Kim Delahunt, and Dr. Peter Cino, chief of staff and vice-president of medical affairs regarding the decision.
“These requests from Ontario Health are in response to an increase in positive COVID-19 case counts and widespread community transmission of the virus province wide,” the statement reads. “The goal is to preserve critical care and human resource capacity as we respond to Wave 3 of the pandemic.”