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UPDATE: COVID-19 Reporting of Deaths

To: Ottawa Physicians and Nurse PractitionersDate: Thursday, February 10, 2022From: Dr Brent Moloughney, Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robin Taylor, Associate Medical Officer of Health

Dear Colleagues,

In a previous version of this Public Health Alert (dated Jan 28, 2022) we did not include the phone and fax information needed in order to report a death from COVID-19 to Ottawa Public Health.

Reporting of death from COVID-19 to Ottawa Public Health

Call 613-580-2424, ext. 24224 to leave a...

71st Annual Refresher Course for Family Physicians

Provider

University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development

Overview

This comprehensive course is designed to provide family physicians and other health-care providers with relevant and recent information about approaches to the diagnosis and management of conditions across the breadth of family medicine in both rural and urban settings. Each day consists of a combination of short snappers and lectures designed specifically for family physicians and healthcare providers which...

Hypertension & Chronic Kidney Disease Course

Provider

University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development

Overview

The University of Ottawa, Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the Division of Nephrology are proud to again offer this 1-day course in hypertension and chronic kidney disease for primary care physicians and other health care professionals. This course has been designed to serve as a refresher in these two areas of practice.

Topics include:

• Home BP monitoring in 2022
• The Role of Aldosterone in...

Improving the Vaccination Experience: Resources

The Hospital for Sick Children’s About Kids Health offers a learning hub that provides strategies that can be used to help cope before and during vaccination.

The hub outlines a CARD system (Comfort, Ask, Relax, Distract) which can help you to guide your patients and their child to a more positive vaccination experience and includes resources such as videos and handouts.

Downloadable handouts include:Improving the Vaccination Experience: Comfort Positions (PDF)

Having a vaccination may make children and...

Kids Vaccine Day January 27th: Promoting the Vaccine for Children 5-11

Kids Vaccine Day is today, January 27th,  and Ottawa Public Health (OPH) vaccination efforts have moved to a more targeted approach and added increased vaccine accessibility across the city. Families can drop in and speak to a public health nurse about the COVID-19 vaccine and receive their vaccine at after-school COVID-19 vaccination clinics, community clinics, and neighbourhood hubs.  Community clinic appointment times are also available if preferred by booking online or calling the Provincial...