London’s Windemere Manor Hotel is back open for business, but the only clientele who will be staying there for the next month will be local medical professionals fighting the novel coronavirus.
Western University and its Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry have reserved 35 to 40 rooms at the campus-area hotel to provide, free of charge, to physicians in the city who are on the front lines of the pandemic.
Windemere Manor Hotel, which is a tenant of Western’s Discovery Park, closed its doors to the public in mid-March because of the pandemic.
The goal, says Schulich’s acting dean, Dr. Davy Cheng, is to keep those physicians from having to decide whether to go home and potentially put their family’s lives at risk. “They don’t want to go