{"id":5157,"date":"2024-03-27T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2024-03-27T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:55:42","slug":"masking-policy-updated-by-huron-perth-healthcare-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masking-policy-updated-by-huron-perth-healthcare-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Masking policy updated by Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA) is updating its masking policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased upon the most recent Public Health Ontario guidance, updates will be made&#8230;\u201d read a release from the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Effective immediately, masking will be \u201cwelcomed but no longer required,\u201d in many clinical areas of HPHA hospital sites with the exception of emergency departments where masking is still required.<\/p>\n<p>Masking will also still be required for anybody who has symptoms of respiratory infection such as cough, fever and sore throat. If you\u2019re accompanying somebody with symptoms, you must also wear a mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA) is updating its masking policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased upon the most recent Public Health Ontario guidance, updates will be made&#8230;\u201d read a release from the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Effective immediately, masking will be \u201cwelcomed but no longer required,\u201d in many clinical areas of HPHA hospital sites with the exception of emergency departments where masking is still required.<\/p>\n<p>Masking will also still be required for anybody who has symptoms of respiratory infection such as cough, fever and sore throat. If you\u2019re accompanying somebody with symptoms, you must also wear a mask.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masking-policy-updated-by-huron-perth-healthcare-alliance\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masking policy updated by Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,993,994,18,23,992,19,119,14,996,995,554,553,384,385,143],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-clinton","tag-clinton-public-hospital","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-huron-perth-healthcare-alliance","tag-masks","tag-ontario","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-seaforth","tag-seaforth-community-hospital","tag-st-marys","tag-st-marys-memorial-hospital","tag-stratford","tag-stratford-general-hospital","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}