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COVID-19 HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOL
It is important to us that we ensure you are safe and protected from any risk associated with acquiring COVID-19 or any other for that matter. To that end we wish to review with you the safety and sanitary standards we have adopted at our clinic.
● All surfaces that will be touched by human hands are scrubbed down with government approved disinfectant before and after each shift and before and after each patient. This includes door handles to closed doors, chairs, reception desk, point of sale terminal, adjusting benches, testing equipment and therapeutic equipment to name the most common ones. We have a checklist that is followed after each patient to ensure we do not miss a thing.
● You are required to cleanse your hands upon entering the premises with the hand sanitizer we will provide. We advise you to do the same when you leave.
● You are required to let us know in advance of your visit to the office if you are not feeling well or have a fever. We will ask you to postpone your visit to the office until your symptoms have abated.
● The doctor will be cleansing their hands between each patient visit to ensure there is no transmission of infectious agents.
● The doctor and team will be wearing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as per our regulatory bodies requirements.
● Safe physical distancing protocols will be maintained at all times between the patients while in the office.
● Our appointment booking system has undergone some transformation in order to keep you safe. We will be booking patient visits at a frequency that minimizes the possibility that more people will be in the office at once than can safely maintain physical distance protocols. We ask for your cooperation and patience with us as we work out the new booking system. It is important to contact us by phone if you arrive early for an appointment so as to ensure appropriate physical distancing. If we get running behind for any reason we will do our best to contact you and advise you of an appropriate time to come later in the day or the next day.
● If at any time during your visit with us you feel uncomfortable or unsafe PLEASE communicate that to one of the team members or the doctor and we will do everything in our power to resolve it and help you feel safe or rebook your appointment.
BEFORE ARRIVING FOR YOUR VISIT, PLEASE REVIEW THE LIST OF QUESTIONS LISTED BELOW. IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY, PLEASE NOTIFY OUR OFFICE PRIOR TO YOUR APPOINTMENT TO DISCUSS.
1. Do you or the person you are inquiring about have any of the following symptoms: severe difficulty breathing (e.g., struggling for each breath, speaking in single words), chest pain, confusion, extreme drowsiness or loss of consciousness?
Yes
No
2. Do you or the person you are inquiring about have shortness of breath at rest or difficulty breathing when lying down?
Yes
No
3. Do you have a new onset of any of the following symptoms: fever/chills, cough, sore throat/hoarse voice, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell, vomiting, or diarrhea for more than 24 hours and if the patient is an infant, poor feeding and lethargy?
Yes
No
4. Do you have a new onset of 2 or more of any of the following symptoms: runny nose, muscle aches, fatigue, conjunctivitis (pink eye), headache, skin rash of unknown cause or nausea or loss of appetite?
Yes
No
5. Have you had close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 without wearing appropriate PPE?
Yes
No
6. Have you had laboratory exposure while working directly with specimens known to contain COVID-19?
Yes
No
7. Have you been in a setting in the last 14 days that has been identified by public health as a risk for acquiring COVID-19, such as on a flight, in a workplace with a cluster of cases, or at an event?
Yes
No
8. If you are not vaccinated, have you traveled outside of Ontario in the last 14 days, excluding personal travel to border communities?
(Note that workers who routinely travel inter-provincially for work and those involved in commercial transportation of goods and services are excluded)
Yes
No