Local hospitals are warning of changes due to the upcoming provincewide lockdown.
Wawa's Lady Dunn Health Centre warns certain non-urgent procedures and services will be suspended and others offered virtually - your health care provider should contact you directly if there's a change - while Laboratory and Diagnostic Imaging services follow holiday hours, but people are asked to follow provincial direction and "stay home as much as possible, if appropriate".
Visitations to Acute Care patients are suspended during the lockdown - except for compassionate reasons, to be determined by the health care team - while the Emergency Department and outpatient clinics will be limited to those seeking care, though vulnerable patients and those experiencing a "life-altering event" can be accompanied.
Pre-approved care partners can continue to visit long-term care through Christmas, but - as of Boxing Day - only "designated caregivers" are able to visit long-term care residents - exceptions may be made for those in palliative care.
Visitors outside the Algoma District - or those who've had close contact with someone outside of Algoma - are not able to visit.
Services de sante de Chapleau Health Services similarly warns the lockdown restricts long-term care and alternate level of care visitors to "essential caregivers", though visits to in-patients are not allowed during the lockdown, and residents and patients must stay in the home.