Thanks for everyone who joined our virtual events this week.
A reminder that one week from today, on Thursday, November 26th at 7PM, we are hosting our Understanding Your Professional Liability Insurance webinar. Join us for this information session to understand how your PLP insurance protects you and receive tips on what you can do to protect yourself and how to avoid a professional liability claim. Register here
Key Provincial Updates and Resources for Health Professionals Today, the government announced it is launching a series of education and enforcement campaigns to ensure businesses across the province are taking the necessary steps to keep employees, consumers and the public safe. These campaigns will support the current efforts of police, municipal by-law officers, and public health inspectors to educate businesses and enforce the COVID-19 health and safety requirements. Officers will be asking employers to produce their workplace safety plans.
Yesterday, the government announced an investment of $2.4 million to support an additional 13 Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) across the province. OHTs, 29 of which were announced last year, are a method of delivering care that brings
together health care providers and organizations to work as a coordinated team. Including the 13 OHTs announced today, there are now 42 OHTs across Ontario, covering 86% of the province’s population.
The Minister of Long-term Care also announced that beginning next week, long-term care homes within regions in the Orange – Restrict, Red – Control, and Lockdown levels will require:
Staff, essential caregivers and support workers who provide direct care to residents to be tested for COVID-19 weekly and show proof of a negative test result.
Support workers who do not provide direct care for resident to verbally attest to having received a negative COVID-19 test result in the past two weeks.
For long-term care homes within regions in the Green – Prevent and Yellow – Protect levels, testing will continue every two weeks for staff, volunteers, caregivers and visitors.
Canada's Chief Medical Officer of Health's statement for
Nov 19th is available here
For more information, we encourage you to visit the Government of Canada website.
Daily
Reports
As of 10:30AM today, Ontario reported 99,372 confirmed cases (increase of 1210), 83,301 resolved cases, 3,443 deaths and 44,493 currently under investigation with lab results pending.
The Ministry is also reporting that 526 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, 146 are in ICU and 88 are vented. To view these additional details:click here
Click Hereto read the latest Ministry of Health Daily Report
World Health Organization Situation Reports are also available here
In the News For an interactive map tracking all cases across Canada and internationally, click here
Below are some key stories from today that may be of interest
to our members
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We will continue to monitor this situation and keep you updated as more information becomes available. Thank you for the important work that you're doing and the sacrifices you're making to keep Ontarians safe. We appreciate everything that you're doing each and every day.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tiff Blair at tblair@werpn.com
Sincerely,
WeRPN Team
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