Guelph General Hospital says things are returning to near normal after COVID-related delays to some of the hospitals services.
A report to the hospital board Tuesday said that they have been able to get back to 90 per cent of its regular diagnostic imaging activity and operating rooms are back to regular summertime volumes.
The report says that in June Ontario Health asked all hospitals to begin ramping back up services such as diagnostic imaging, scheduled surgeries and procedures as well as ambulatory care services.
“During the peak of COVID, all of these services were reduced and only the most urgent patients were having their tests, procedures and investigations completed,” said the report, authored by hospital CEO Marianne Walker.
Over the past eight weeks, the services have “gradually and methodically” been resumed.
In ambulatory care, some visits and procedures have resumed.
“We are already planning for our fall service schedules. We anticipate that the return to school and the normal seasonal flu season will present us with some added challenges this year, but know that the great foundation we have built over the past two months will support us as we move forward,” Walker’s report says.
