Georgian Bay General Hospital (GBGH) launched its annual flu immunization campaign this week, encouraging staff, professionals (physicians, midwives, dentists) and volunteers to receive their vaccinations at the hospital to protect patients, themselves, loved ones and colleagues.
“When we run our influenza immunization campaign at GBGH every year, I’m always impressed by the high number of staff, professional staff and volunteers who embrace the opportunity to receive their flu shot,” said GBGH Occupational Health and Safety Manager Judy Schell in a news release. “
The GBGH team is committed to patient safety and it shows in their enthusiasm to be vaccinated for the protection of patients and themselves. We want to be here and healthy to provide excellent, personalized care for patients, so immunization is an important part of ensuring that is possible.”
GBGH makes influenza vaccination a top priority every year to ensuring its team of staff, professional staff and volunteers don’t pass along influenza to patients, as well as ensuring its team is healthy to provide care to patients when they need the hospital. To make receiving the flu vaccine as convenient as possible, GBGH’s Occupational Health & Safety department is visiting all GBGH departments.
All patients and visitors are asked to wear a hospital-provided mask and practice hand hygiene when entering GBGH at the main or Emergency department entrances.
Mandatory masking was reinstated by GBGH on Oct. 5 in most areas of the hospital in response to elevated rates of respiratory illness in the community.