Joseph Brant Hospital News

For Immediate Release
Burlington, ON – An outbreak has been declared on Unit 6 South 200 (6S200) at Joseph Brant Hospital (JBH) after two patients tested positive for COVID-19. All appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of patients, Essential Care Partners (ECPs), staff and physicians.
Joseph Brant Hospital’s Infection Prevention and Control team and Employee Health Services are ensuring all patients on the unit, along with staff and...
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Burlington, ON – Despite extraordinary measures to create additional capacity for critical care services, pressures on the Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant-Burlington (HNHBB) region’s critical care capacity have worsened over the last week.
These pressures are threatening hospitals’ capacity for time-sensitive surgeries and procedures, and access to critical care through our emergency departments and regional specialty programs.
To ensure available...
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Burlington, ON – Joseph Brant Hospital’s COVID-19 outbreak has been declared over on inpatient Unit 4N700 and 5N400, in consultation with Halton Public Health.
The outbreak on 4N700 was declared on January 12, 2022. In total, 11 patients and 5 staff contracted COVID-19. All appropriate actions were taken to ensure the safety of our patients, staff and physicians.
We thank our staff whose expertise and teamwork brought this outbreak to a close....
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Joseph Brant Hospital’s COVID-19 outbreak has been declared over on inpatient Unit 6 South 200 (6S200), in consultation with Halton Public Health.
The outbreak was declared on January 6, 2022 after three patients on 6 South 200 tested positive for COVID-19. During the outbreak nine patients and two staff contracted COVID-19.
All appropriate actions were taken to ensure the safety of our patients, staff and physicians.
We thank our staff whose expertise and...
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In consultation with Halton Public Health, the COVID-19 outbreak that was declared on Unit 4 North 700 (4N700) on January 12 has extended to an additional unit, 5 North 400 (5N400), as of January 17. 
Three additional patients and four healthcare workers have now tested positive for COVID-19. These new infections are associated with the original outbreak on 4N700 that infected five patients.
Joseph Brant Hospital’s Infection Prevention and Control team and...
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