COVID-19

News & Updates

Provincial status on COVID-19

Step 1 set to begin Friday June 11.

Step 1 – beginning Friday, June 11, 2021

An initial focus on resuming outdoor activities with smaller crowds where the risk of transmission is lower, and permitting limited retail with restrictions. This includes:

• outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people
• outdoor dining with up to four people per table
• non-essential retail at 15% capacity

Reopening Ontario

Reopening Roadmap

We're eager to share the new 2019-2020 RPPEO Annual Report! Watch your email for the electronic report this week. We're putting the finishing touches on it and will be delivering it to the Ministry of Health this week, in plenty of time to meet the deadline tomorrow.

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It's a new certification year! The annual maintenance of certification (MOC) deadline for paramedics to meet requirements for 2021 re-certification is behind us!

With nearly all requirements available to complete online, it was down to the wire for more paramedics than ever this year. Nearly 20% had not completed educational requirements by mid-January.

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Our first Bite-sized Training held on July 17 was a success. Frank walked users through many of the features and lesser known functions of the MedicLEARN platform, which we also provide to our base hospital partners.

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We're now diverting Ottawa General Hospital 911 patches to our new on-call patch physicians.

You may recall that we originally set up a new on-call system to have a dedicated physician taking calls for consultation from the COVID-19 auxiliary medical directive implementation project.

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Virtual reality is starting to take off in paramedic training. How can we can get in on the fun?

We got our hands on a fancy new camera and we're gonna use it!

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Assessment of Patients with Possible COVID-19

Since its release in April, the directive enables paramedics to release some specific patients from care who call 911 and screen positive using the MOH COVID-19 screening tool without transporting them to an emergency department.

This is the first time a care pathway in Ontario emergency paramedicine includes a non-transport option.

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Staff Testing for COVID-19

To ensure staff have timely access to testing, staff can now self-screen and request testing, if needed, directly through the assessment centre.

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The launch of Fall CME is a week and a half away. We've been working steadily at preparing the Paramedics Delivering Palliative Care modules for a successful delivery on our MedicLEARN platform. At the same time, we're building almost half of the content from scratch for the rest of the 8 hours of online content. Expect staff associated with Fall CME to be heads down getting the final content ready and polishing the release versions of lessons.

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There's nothing like a familiar face. But, in paramedicine, seeing the same patient over and over is no comfort; it's a sign that something isn't going right.

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