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Notice of Board of Health Meeting

Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 05:00 AM

Kingston—The Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Board of Health’s April meeting will be hosted by teleconference.Date:                              Wednesday, April 22, 2020Time:                             1:00 p.m. A copy of the Board agenda is attached.  Copies of the complete Board agenda, including all information items, are available upon request.

Reduced Hours for COVID-Assessment Centre

Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 09:00 AM

KINGSTON— For the upcoming weekend, the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at the Memorial Centre will be open daily from Friday, April 10 to Monday, April 13 with reduced hours of operation.

Hours of Operation: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 10 to Monday, April 13

The COVID-19 Assessment Centre will return to regular hours of operation from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.on Tuesday, April 14.

The community based COVID-19 Assessment Centre operates 7 days a week and is set up to assess returning...

Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) Pandemic Tracker Launches

Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2020 09:00 AM

Kingston, ON – KFL&A Public Health launches new Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) Pandemic Tracker to monitor daily admissions to hospitals in Ontario for key syndromes related to COVID-19.

ACES is a real-time syndromic surveillance system that uses natural language processing to group free text reasons for admission into different syndromes. These syndromes are not clinical diagnoses. The ACES Pandemic Tracker looks at admissions to hospitals for syndromes related to COVID-19, for example,...

A Community Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 05:00 AM

In these unprecedented times government, the health care system, businesses and community agencies, and individuals in KFL&A are pulling together to find creative and effective solutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On March 26, acting decisively as a community, all 11 municipalities in KFL&A formally declared a local state of emergency. This decision aligns with steps the Province of Ontario has taken and shows how united area municipalities are in supporting our community and providing...

KFL&A Public Health – Cloyne and Sharbot Lake Office Closures

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 08:00 AM

KINGSTON— As of Monday, March 30, 2020 the KFL&A Public Health offices in Sharbot Lake and Cloyne will be open to the public for radon test and water sample drop off one day per week. These offices are closing temporary, with the exception of this one day, to allow for staff from these offices to assist with COVID-19 operations in the main office in Kingston.

Hours of Operation

  • Sharbot Lake Office (130 Elizabeth Street, Sharbot Lake) will be open on Tuesdays.
  • Cloyne Office (14209 Highway 41,...

Notice of Board of Health Meeting

Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 08:00 AM

Kingston—The Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Board of Health’s March meeting will be hosted by teleconference.Date:                              Wednesday, March 25, 2020Time:                             1:00 p.m. A copy of the Board agenda is attached.  Copies of the complete Board agenda, including all information items, are available upon request.

Self-Isolation Means You Stay At Home

Posted on Friday, March 20, 2020 12:00 PM

Kingston, ON – All individuals who are returning from any travel outside of Canada and any individuals with COVID-19 symptoms are to self-isolate for 14 days. Self-isolation means you stay at home and avoid contact with other people.

Staying home means you:

  • do not go to public places such as work, grocery stores, shopping centres, or pharmacies.
  • ask someone to get food and other necessities for you and leave them at your front door.
  • do not let visitors in — only people who usually live with you...

Three Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases in KFLA Area

Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 09:30 AM

Kingston, ON – Today, Dr. Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health at KFL&A Public Health confirmed that there are three positive cases of COVID-19 in the KFL&A area.

Two females, 44 and 62 years of age, and one male 48 years of age, all with recent travel history to Spain, Barbados, and the United Kingdom have tested positive for COVID-19. Two of the individuals were seen and assessed at the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital, while the third affected individual was assessed at a...

Returning Travellers Advised to Self-Isolate for 14 Days

Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 04:30 AM

Effective immediately, KFL&A Public Health is implementing new recommendations to reduce the spread of COVID-19 locally. Dr. Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health is advising all individuals who are returning from any travel outside of Canada to self-isolate for 14 days and to monitor for symptoms of COVID-19. This recommendation is retroactive for any individuals that have returned from travel outside of Canada (e.g., if you returned 7 days ago, you would self-isolate for the next 7 days)....

Increased opioid overdoses in Kingston

Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2020 06:30 AM

KFL&A Public Health is warning residents of an increase in opioid overdoses that occurred this past week. Increases in both emergency department visits and 9-1-1 calls for opioid overdoses have been observed locally in the Kingston area as well as provincially through monitoring systems. 

Other communities in Ontario have reported the presence of an illegal benzodiazepine, flualprazolam, in circulation that has been found in combination with drugs such as fentanyl.  The negative effects of using...

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