More Alberta hospitals add masking requirements
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A total of 14 Alberta Health Services sites are now using the enhanced masking directive two weeks after it was put in place by the provincial health authority.
More hospitals and Alberta Health Services locations across the province are adding enhanced masking in the face of increasing spread of COVID-19.
The directive requires staff, physicians, volunteers and lab workers to wear masks when in spaces when they are in patient-facing spaces like care areas, hallways, foyers, cafeterias, or gift shops.
Patients and visitors are not required to wear a mask in those areas, but are required when in emergency departments and labour and delivery assessment/triage areas in those facilities.
On Tuesday, six more sites in the Edmonton zone decided to add masks:
On Friday, Calgary’s Cross Cancer Institute also added enhanced masking for workers there, but does not require masking for patients and visitors “except for areas where staff determine masking is required.”
AHS said signage will be in place where masking is required.
A total of 14 AHS sites are now using the enhanced masking directive two weeks after it was put in place by the provincial health authority.
Also on Tuesday, AHS released updated information on acute care outbreaks in the province.
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