The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance has again updated their visitor restrictions, specifically for patients in intensive care. With few exceptions, no visitors will be permitted to either the Chatham or Wallaceburg sites.Exceptions include ONE consistent visitor for:
- labouring mothers.
- paediatrics and Level 2 Nursery.
- patients who are imminently dying; this has been updated to include patients who are imminently dying and may be in the intensive care unit (ICU).
- patients undergoing life-threatening surgery. Those undergoing surgery for other reasons such as fractures, will not be permitted a visitor.
- emergency department only for those exceptions noted above: paediatrics, patients who are imminently dying or those who will undergo a life-threatening surgery.
Visitors will continue to be actively screened into the hospital. All visitors must be over the age of 18, designated by a patient in one of the units named above, must be non-symptomatic and are required to check in at the main entrance at the Chatham Site and Emergency Department (ED) at the Wallaceburg Site where they will undergo screening.
