{"id":9506,"date":"2025-12-09T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9506"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:16:57","slug":"retour-du-masque-obligatoire-dans-les-hopitaux-de-loutaouais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/retour-du-masque-obligatoire-dans-les-hopitaux-de-loutaouais\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of mandatory masking in Outaouais hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"fr\">The Centre int\u00e9gr\u00e9 de sant\u00e9 et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l&#8217;Outaouais<\/span><span lang=\"en\"> has decided to reinstate mandatory mask wearing upon entry into its care facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Starting on Tuesday, wearing a mask is mandatory in hospital centres, including the outpatient ward, the <\/span><span lang=\"fr\">Pierre-Janet<\/span> <span lang=\"en\">mental health hospital (including units&nbsp;5 and 6 of the juvenile wing), the Physical rehabilitation centre, <\/span><span lang=\"fr\">La RessourSe<\/span>, <span lang=\"en\">residential and long-term care centres and seniors&#8217; homes and alternative housing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The <\/span><span lang=\"fr\"><abbr title=\"Centre int\u00e9gr\u00e9 de sant\u00e9 et de services sociaux\">CISSS<\/abbr> de l&#8217;Outaouais<\/span> <span lang=\"en\">explains its decision by citing &#8220;an early start to the influenza season, an increase in respiratory viruses (particularly influenza&nbsp;A), an increase in outbreaks, a high number of visits to emergency rooms for respiratory symptoms, and the current overload in emergency rooms.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">This measure aims to &#8220;limit the transmission of viruses, protect clients, healthcare workers and vulnerable individuals, as well as prevent outbreaks,&#8221; it adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"fr\">The Centre int\u00e9gr\u00e9 de sant\u00e9 et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l&#8217;Outaouais<\/span><span lang=\"en\"> has decided to reinstate mandatory mask wearing upon entry into its care facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Starting on Tuesday, wearing a mask is mandatory in hospital centres, including the outpatient ward, the <\/span><span lang=\"fr\">Pierre-Janet<\/span> <span lang=\"en\">mental health hospital (including units&nbsp;5 and 6 of the juvenile wing), the Physical rehabilitation centre, <\/span><span lang=\"fr\">La RessourSe<\/span>, <span lang=\"en\">residential and long-term care centres and seniors&#8217; homes and alternative housing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/retour-du-masque-obligatoire-dans-les-hopitaux-de-loutaouais\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return of mandatory masking in Outaouais hospitals<\/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":[96,18,138,23,77,19,119,137,249,70,14,143,15],"class_list":["post-9506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-gatineau","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-masks","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506","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=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9512,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions\/9512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}