COVID-19 outbreak declared over at St. Joseph's Healthcare Charlton campus
Posted April 19th, 2021
In consultation with Hamilton Public Health Services, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton has declared an end to a COVID-19 outbreak on CTU-West, a general internal medicine unit at the Charlton campus.
St. Joe’s Infection Prevention and Control and Occupational Health and Safety teams were able to contain transmission after two people tested positive for the virus April 6th. Contact tracing was initiated and extensive infection control measures were undertaken.
CTU-West has reopened to new patient admissions.
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