Pembroke Regional Hospital employee tests positive for COVID-19
Posted Dec 29, 2020 04:20:03 PM.
An employee at Pembroke Regional Hospital has tested positive for COVID-19, the hospital confirmed.
In the announcement published Monday evening, the hospital is reassuring the community that the hospital is safe for all those needing healthcare services.
“This is the third member of our health care team who has tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, but we want to assure our community that our hospital is still a safe place to come to when you are in need of our services due to the safety measures we have in place to protect our patients, visitors, staff and physicians,” said PRH President and CEO Pierre Noel, adding that any patients who would have been at risk of exposure from this case would already have been contacted.”
The current case is unrelated to the previous two staff cases, which have since cleared.
Noel says the hospital is in the process of completing a thorough investigation and is working closely with its occupational health and safety department and the Renfrew County and District Health Unit to complete contact tracing.
Anyone who has been deemed to be a close contact of the positive case has already been contacted and directed to self-isolate and testing has been completed or is in the processes.
