Dear Client(s):
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we will be making temporary changes in the way we deliver your care. Our goal is to minimize potential exposure to as many as possible while freeing up resources to attend to those who require urgent care.
As of Monday, March 16 we will no longer be booking routine appointments. If you have a booked appointment, we will be calling you to postpone it or amend this appointment. Examples of routine appointments include periodic health visits, annual physicals, PAP tests and clinics, Well Baby checkups (where an immunization is not required), blood work, chiropody and foot care appointments, lung health appointments, weight management appointments and memory care clinic.
Additionally we will be reviewing our schedules. Those that can be accomplished safely by phone or virtual visit (information to follow) will be booked as such. Those visits that are of a more urgent nature and require an in-person visit, will still be offered this option. All group visits will be postponed until further notice. Examples of Group visits are medical visits for diabetes, memory care clinics, COPD group education and all community group programs.
In order to help reduce the spread of the virus, we ask for your help. If you have respiratory symptoms, cough fever, difficulty breathing we ask that you stay home and call our office or public health. Lanark Leeds Grenville Public Health Unit can be reached by phone at 1-800-660-5853 and the Renfrew County and District Public Health Unit at 613-735-8654, extension 577.
If you are running out of medication please ask the pharmacy to fax the renewal request to the community health centre. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/wwbchc/ and https://www.facebook.com/northlanarkchc.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we navigate this. These changes will be regularly assessed and are in place until further notice.
Sincerely,
John Jordan, Executive Director of Lanark Renfrew Health & Community Services
