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Medical Exemptions to the COVID-19 Vaccine: How to submit forms
Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2022 08:00 AM
To: Ottawa Physicians, Specialists, Nurse PractitionersDate: January 11, 2021From: Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health
Dear Colleagues,As of January 10, 2022, any patient who has a medical exemption to COVID-19 vaccines will need a provincially issued digital QR Code to access certain businesses and settings. These codes can be generated by Ottawa Public Health once proper documentation is received from a physician or nurse practitioner.
Medical exemptions to obtain the QR code...
COVID-19 Update January 7th, 2022
Posted on Friday, January 07, 2022 09:30 AM
To: Ottawa Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Travel and Walk-In ClinicsDate: January 7th, 2022From: Dr Robin Taylor, Associate Medical Officer of Health
Dear Colleagues,
Guidance from the Ministry of Health regarding COVID-19 is rapidly changing. Thank you for your patience. We have reached out to the Ministry of Health to clarify some elements of the December 30th COVID-19 Integrated Testing & Case, Contact and Outbreak Management Interim Guidance: Omicron Surge provincial guidance and hope that...
Updates to provincial guidance on testing and isolation for COVID-19
Posted on Tuesday, January 04, 2022 03:00 AM
To: Ottawa Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives, Travel Clinics and Walk-in, Clinics, and Infection ControlDate: Jan 3, 2022From: Dr. Robin Taylor, Associate Medical Officer of Health
Dear Colleagues,
As you are likely aware, the Province has just announced that Ontario is temporarily moving to “modified step two of the roadmap to reopen”. Details of this will continue to emerge, however today I would like to provide you with the Dec 30, 2021 Provincial document on “COVID-19 Integrated...
COVID-19 Update Dec 31 2021
Posted on Friday, December 31, 2021 10:45 AM
To: Ottawa Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives, Travel Clinics and Walk-in Clinics, and Infection ControlDate: December 31, 2021From: Dr. Robin Taylor, Associate Medical Officer of Health
Dear Colleagues,
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is currently reviewing the new guidelines announced today by the Province in response to the highly transmissible Omicron variant. We will be updating our processes soon to reflect these changes and will message again when the new Provincial guidelines are available...
Updates to provincial guidance on PPE for COVID-19
Posted on Friday, December 24, 2021 07:45 AM
To: Ottawa Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives, Travel Clinics and Walk-in Clinics, and Infection ControlDate: December 24th, 2021From: Dr. Robin Taylor, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Dr Dave Salisbury, Medical Director
Dear Colleagues,
Guidance related to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to change. We would like to draw your attention to the recent technical brief from Public Health Ontario regarding the use ofpersonal protective equipment (PPE) for care of patients with...
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