{"id":15655,"date":"2020-12-17T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=15655"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:09:13","slug":"covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont."},"content":{"rendered":"

(December 16, 2020)<\/p>\n

By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News<\/p>\n

The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but has yet to comment about how many patients or staff members are involved.<\/p>\n

Level Two outbreaks were declared in the sub-acute medicine unit and the short term admissions unit in the same ward. Today’s outbreaks follow one\u00a0declared yesterday at Victoria Hospital<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>on the burns\/plastics\u00a0unit.<\/p>\n

A Level Two outbreak is declared when there are at least two lab-confirmed cases of hospital-acquired illness on a particular unit in patients who have been in the hospital for more than 72 hours.<\/p>\n

<\/section>\n

“This is a crisis. We can’t pretend anymore that it isn’t. All of these failures of government have aligned themselves at the worst time,” said Peter Bergmanis, co-chair of the Ontario Health Coalition.<\/p>\n

“Front line staff are so frustrated.”<\/p>\n

There are also nine\u00a0outbreaks at University Hospital, according to the Middlesex London Health Unit. The LHSC has reported\u00a016\u00a0<\/a>deaths as a result\u00a0of the University Hospital outbreaks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As of Wednesday,\u00a077\u00a0patients and 82 staff members\u00a0have tested positive for COVID-19 associated with the UH outbreaks.\u00a0There are currently\u00a036 patients and 38 staffers who are\u00a0sick with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The LHSC reports its outbreaks on a page on its website but does not otherwise inform the public or media.<\/p>\n

‘Public needs to know’<\/h2>\n

LHSC administrators\u00a0declined CBC’s interview requests about the city’s\u00a0intensive-care unit capacity, the field hospital at Western Fair and how ready local officials\u00a0are to roll out vaccinations Wednesday. They referred questions to the province.<\/p>\n

Bergmanis said it is very difficult to get timely information from the hospital, and he has to rely on internal sources who are afraid for their jobs if they speak out about lack of resources.<\/p>\n

“The public needs to be aware of what is going on in these hospitals,” Bergmanis said. “The front-line staff are buried under secrecy. This close-lipped attitude is not serving any purpose.”<\/p>\n

Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but has yet to comment about how many patients or staff members are involved. Level Two outbreaks were declared in the sub-acute medicine unit and the short term admissions unit in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. - Ontario Health Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. - Ontario Health Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ontario Health Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-17T16:07:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-05T16:09:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont.\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-17T16:07:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-05T16:09:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":341,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"OHC in the News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/\",\"name\":\"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. - Ontario Health Coalition\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-17T16:07:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-05T16:09:13+00:00\",\"description\":\"(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ontario Health Coalition\",\"description\":\"Our primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ontario Health Coalition\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/logo_ohc_new-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/logo_ohc_new-1.png\",\"width\":478,\"height\":240,\"caption\":\"Ontario Health Coalition\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ontariohealth?fref=ts\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/OntarioHealthC\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/ontariohealthcoalition\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tiktok.com\\\/@ontariohealthc\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCPy4Erf4xGLZV6CY23xdokw\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4\",\"name\":\"admin\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. - Ontario Health Coalition","description":"(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. - Ontario Health Coalition","og_description":"(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/","og_site_name":"Ontario Health Coalition","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts","article_published_time":"2020-12-17T16:07:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-01-05T16:09:13+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4"},"headline":"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont.","datePublished":"2020-12-17T16:07:10+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-05T16:09:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/"},"wordCount":341,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#organization"},"articleSection":["OHC in the News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/","name":"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. - Ontario Health Coalition","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-12-17T16:07:10+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-05T16:09:13+00:00","description":"(December 16, 2020) By: Kate Dubinski, CBC News The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has declared one new outbreak at Victoria Hospital Wednesday but","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/covid-19-outbreaks-spread-at-victoria-hospital-in-london-ont\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19 outbreaks spread at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/","name":"Ontario Health Coalition","description":"Our primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#organization","name":"Ontario Health Coalition","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo_ohc_new-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo_ohc_new-1.png","width":478,"height":240,"caption":"Ontario Health Coalition"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts","https:\/\/x.com\/OntarioHealthC","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ontariohealthcoalition","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ontariohealthc","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPy4Erf4xGLZV6CY23xdokw"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/3bee6583f445dde27b35a7bba61b06b4","name":"admin"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15656,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions\/15656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}