Current Status: AMBER

Effective Saturday 19 April 2025 morning: GREEN

Visitor Update 

After three years of managing the COVID-19 pandemic, with strict access rules, we have decided to follow other health services and will be adopting a risk-based approach to COVID-19 controls, effective Monday 28 August 2023.
Following external benchmarking, and internal consultation with our Operational Management Team, we will move to a traffic-light system to assign either a Green, Amber or Red status that informs actions to be taken by staff/volunteers and visitors.
The colour assigned will depend on various elements of what is happening with COVID in our community, patients, and/or number of staff affected.
These actions will sit outside our internal rigorous controls for any suspected or positive COVID patients.
Today’s message is about the visitor rules to the HOSPITAL BUILDING and what it means during different colours.

ALL colours

2 visitors per patient at a time, for up to 2 hours

NO visiting if symptomatic

Hand sanitise, sign in and out at reception

GREEN

No RA Testing,

surgical masks are optional,

visiting hours between 0930am – 7pm hours daily.

AMBER

No RA Testing,

no visiting to respiratory cases in isolation,

surgical mask to visit others,

visiting hours between 0930am – 7pm hours daily.

RED

RA Testing required,

No visiting to respiratory cases in isolation,

N95’s to visit others,

Visiting hours reduced to between 0930 – 1130am and 5-7pm only

We anticipate being GREEN on Monday, but as this may change at any point it may be worth checking our website or face book page  (status to be pinned to top).

Thank you, Paul

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