St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (STEGH) is in the process of setting up temporary tented areas outside their emergency department in the ongoing battle against the novel coronavirus.
The tents are being installed to provide additional space in which to implement safety precautions, before patients enter the hospital. “This is really a strategy that we’ve implemented to pre-triage patients before we can determine which is the most suitable area of the emergency department for them to get a further triage assessment and then treated accordingly,” said Craig Watkin, director of Emergency Services and Medicine St.
Thomas. “It’s essentially about patients and staff safety.” STEGH is stressing that the tents being set up are not assessment