Nova Scotia Health’s COVID-19 vaccine outreach clinics will be offering drop-in vaccination (Pfizer) for anyone aged 5+ in Northern Zone to help support vaccine accessibility.
The COVID Community Virtual Care Team (CCVCT) has been supporting Nova Scotians with access to pulse oximeters to monitor their oxygen levels at home since COVID-19 arrived in Nova Scotia.
In order to maintain intensive care bed capacity and mitigate the impact of increasing numbers of staff off work in isolation, some non-urgent surgeries scheduled for the QEII must be postponed, beginning Monday.
Updates to previously issued notifications plus new potential exposures to COVID-19 at locations in Central, Eastern and Northern Zones, and on one flight. In addition to media releases, all potential exposure notifications are listed here: http://www.nshealth.ca/covid-exposures.
As Quality Leaders within the Central Zone of the Mental Health and Addictions Program (MHAP), Laura Ankcorn, Mara Miljanovic, and Lianne Nixon understand how important continuous quality improvement is for effective health care delivery, and for improving health care outcomes for all clients within the program.
There are Quality Leads in each Zone of MHAP who focus on helping make a difference for patients through improving safety, effectiveness, equity and helping to make the overall health care experience as people-centered as possible.
Based out of the Centre for Clinical Research in Halifax, Tabitha Palmer has been a licensed research coordinator and dietitian with the endocrinology research group for the past 20 years. She is known for going above and beyond to provide patients involved in clinical studies great care and attention.
A hot water shutdown will take place starting Friday, Dec. 17 at Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney to perform required maintenance on the system.
Updates to previously issued notification plus new potential exposures to COVID-19 at locations in Central and Eastern Zones, and on Halifax Transit routes and one flight. In addition to media releases, all potential exposure notifications are listed here: http://www.nshealth.ca/covid-exposures.
Nova Scotia Public Health has begun contacting positive COVID-19 cases by text message when that is an option. For those who do not have text, Public Health will follow up by phone.
