Notice from Kim McComb - WGH Infection Control

Good Morning, ALL;

The H1N1 Outbreak Status has been lifted for our Hospital. Therefore, all staff can enter the building through the flag pole or Administration entrance on Hospital Drive and NOT through the ER entrance to the Hospital.

Each of you will also be required to self-screen before coming to work. If you are symptomatic with at least two or more of the following symptoms please stay home and call in, or if you are in need of care please put on a mask and wash your hands when you enter the hospital, then present to the receptionist at A&D or to an ER nurse immediately.

The symptoms are as follows: Cough, Fever, Body Aches and/or Headache, Chills, Fatigue, Sore Throat, Runny or Stuffy Nose, Diarrhea, and/or Vomiting.

Visiting hours will return to the regularly scheduled times. Visitor will also have to self-screen, sign in and out, and WASH THEIR HANDS at the station inside the flag pole entrance. It is ALL of our responsibility to insure the community understands that these hours are to be adhered to and not have people wondering in and out at will.


Let's continue to keep our patients, colleagues, families, and community healthy and safe.

I would also like to take this opportunity to sincerely THANK YOU, ALL for your cooperation, participation, and diligence in keeping this virus at bay by participating in the screening, signing in, and washing your hands. We did a great job for round one, round two will be here, the experts expect, this Fall with the seasonal FLU.

Please watch for the different vaccination clinics: the first one is the Pneumovacs 23 (which is a vaccine that contains 23 different types of pneumonia) that should be taken by everyone that has any chronic respiratory disorder (asthma, COPD, CHF,…), diabetes, or any other chronic illness and it is on right now. So, please contact the Health Centre and roll up your sleeve. The next vaccine scheduled is the Annual FLU SHOT and we should be starting these clinics in late September or early October. And the third and last vaccine for this year, is the H1N1 vaccine and it should be available by early to mid December 2009.

WASH YOUR HANDS and TAKE YOUR VITAMIN D!

Thank you, ALL again and have a nice day!
Kim McComb