{"id":9565,"date":"2025-12-23T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:34:11","slug":"masks-now-required-for-patients-visitors-at-4-edmonton-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-now-required-for-patients-visitors-at-4-edmonton-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks now required for patients, visitors at 4&nbsp;Edmonton hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Health Services (AHS) has instituted a masking requirement for four hospitals in the Edmonton area.<\/p>\n<p>An enhanced masking directive is in place at Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital and the University of Alberta Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This means all patients, designated support persons and visitors must wear a mask in the emergency departments of the above acute care facilities. There are signs at the front entrance of each location signalling where enhanced masking is happening, AHS says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Health Services (AHS) has instituted a masking requirement for four hospitals in the Edmonton area.<\/p>\n<p>An enhanced masking directive is in place at Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital and the University of Alberta Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This means all patients, designated support persons and visitors must wear a mask in the emergency departments of the above acute care facilities. There are signs at the front entrance of each location signalling where enhanced masking is happening, AHS says. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-now-required-for-patients-visitors-at-4-edmonton-hospitals\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks now required for patients, visitors at 4&nbsp;Edmonton 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":[315,316,96,408,23,77,304,143],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-health-services","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-outbreaks","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","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=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9568,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}