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HALIFAX:<\/strong> In keeping with the provincial government\u2019s September 29 announcement that proof of vaccination will be required for designated caregivers and visitors of residents in long-term care facilities, Nova Scotia Health will be requiring support people\/visitors to show proof of vaccination when entering our facilities effective October 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This includes those identified as designated family\/support people by patients in the hospital, as well as those accompanying patients who are coming to a hospital or clinic for a scheduled test, appointment or procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exceptions may be made for compassionate reasons such as emergency situations and end-of-life care, in discussion with the care team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In these circumstances, support people will be required to follow additional infection prevention and control measures to ensure the health and safety of our patients and our teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proof of vaccination will not be required for those seeking or receiving care or treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We know how important it is to have loved ones present while a patient is in the hospital,” N.S. health said in their statement on Oct. 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Proof of full vaccination is intended to provide a layer of protection against the spread of COVID-19 so that we can continue to safely maintain family presence, while reducing the risk of introducing or transmitting COVID-19 within our facilities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”105″] [adrotate banner=”95″] HALIFAX: In keeping with the provincial government\u2019s September 29 announcement that proof of vaccination will be required for designated caregivers and visitors of residents in long-term care facilities, Nova Scotia Health will be requiring support people\/visitors to show proof of vaccination when entering our facilities effective October 13. This includes those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2150,50,48,1617,2646],"class_list":["post-24041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-halifax","tag-n-s","tag-n-s-health","tag-proof-of-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}