On Thursday, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) hospitals will begin COVID-19 screening protocols, and the agency is recommending patients and visitors arrive earlier than expected to its health-care facilities.
In a release, the agency said it’s not only running screenings for the new coronavirus but that it has also begun restricting visitors to the hospital, allowing only one visitor per patient at a time between the hours of 10 a.m.
and 8 p.m. With the new screening process, access to the hospitals will be reduced to main entrances as well as parking and emergency entrances, where available.
The affected hospitals are Hamilton General, Juravinski, Juravinski Cancer Centre, McMaster University Medical Centre, St. Peter’s, and West Lincoln