January 18, 2022 2:43pm
Grey Bruce Health Services confirms it is seeing a high number of admissions of COVID-19 patients in hospital.
President and CEO Gary Sims says in previous waves of the pandemic, GBHS accepted patients from Manitoba and the GTA, but are now faced with transferring patients out of hospital, and says they are over capacity “almost daily.”
GBHS says they currently have 16 COVID-positive patients, including six patients that were admitted for other health reasons, but are now positive for COVID-19.
With 11 Grey Bruce retirement/long-term care homes currently reporting an outbreak, hospitalized patients waiting to return to these facilities cannot be discharged, which is adding to overcapacity issues across GBHS.
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