For Primary Care and Community Specialists
This guide is intended to support your local decision-making and circumstances when re-opening your office. Links to external sources will ensure that you always access the most up-to-date information.
This webpage links to the Ontario Health West-South West Pandemic Planning Table, and has been adapted to support clinicians in the North region in preparing to re-open their practices through the chronic phase of the COVID19 pandemic.
What patients need to know before they arrive, communication tools, signage, etc.
How to screen over the phone, online screening tool, current symptom list, etc.
Physical office set up, reducing time in office, active screening, patient messaging/signage, etc.
What patients need to know before they arrive, communication tools, signage, etc.
Things to consider when planning for telephone or video/virtual visits, home visits, and more.
What patients need to know before they arrive, communication tools, signage, etc.
Testing in office/elsewhere, case definition, reporting, Assessment Centres, and more.
Infection Prevention & Control (IPAC); PPE for COVID +/- screen, stewardship, ordering, etc.
Things to consider when planning for telephone or video/virtual visits, home visits, and more.