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Indigenous-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics: Eligibility for Vaccinations

Indigenous-specific COVID-19 vaccine clinics are underway as part of Phase 1 of the vaccine roll out. You may have patients who self-identify as First Nation, Inuit and/or Métis who are currently eligible to receive their vaccination.

As part of OPH’s commitment to reconciliation, we are very pleased to be collaborating with the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team, and other local Indigenous agencies, to provide and promote culturally safe COVID-19...

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Ontario eConsult : Advice for managing COVID-19 and Pregnancy

The Ontario eConsult Centre of Excellence  has created a COVID-19 and Pregnancy BASE™ Managed Specialty Group of Obstetrics specialists who can answer both patient-specific and general questions about COVID-19 and Pregnancy. This service is now available province wide.

The group was created in response to the ongoing pandemic to enable physicians and nurse practitioners to ask COVID-19 and Pregnancy related clinical questions to Obstetrics specialists electronically and receive a response within days...

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COVID-19 Vaccine Update for week of March 15

To: Ottawa Travel Clinics, Walk-in Clinics, Physicians, Nurse Practionners, Midwives

Date: March 18, 2021

From: Dr. Trevor Arnason, AMOH, COVID Vaccine, Ottawa Public Health Dr. Robin Taylor, AMOH, Physician Engagement, Ottawa Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is rapidly evolving, we plan to increase the frequency of our communications to at least a weekly basis. This week we address ongoing pre-registration of health care workers (HCW) for COVID-19 immunization,...

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Update on Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in Ottawa

To / Destinataire: CHCs/CRCs; Flu vaccine providers; Travel Clinics; Walk-In Clinics; Physicians; Nurse Practitioners;From / Expéditeur: Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Ottawa Public Health

Dear Colleagues,In follow-up to the March 1st Update of Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in Ottawa, we are pleased to announce that vaccine supplies will allow healthcare worker vaccination to proceed to the “very high priority” group. This category is broad and includes tens of thousands of...

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Update on COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in Ottawa

To : CHCs/CRCs; Flu vaccine providers; Travel Clinics; Walk-In Clinics; Physicians; Nurse Practitioners; From : Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Ottawa Public HealthSubject : Update on Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in OttawaDate : March 1, 2021

Dear Colleagues,

Ottawa continues the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out of phase 1 of Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccination Plan. Although vaccine supply has started to increase and we hope/expect to see this trend continue, the supply is still the limiting...

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