Cochrane Chiropractic

Masking Requirements Lifting

admin — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:43:03 +0000

Most Masking Requirements to be Lifted on June 11

June 08, 2022 – click here for original article

Most of the province’s remaining provincial masking requirements, including on public transit, will expire as of 12:00 a.m. on June 11, 2022.

Masks will still be required in long-term care and retirement homes.

Organizations may implement their own policies. Ontarians should continue to wear a mask if they feel it is right for them.

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What this means for patients of Cochrane Chiropractic:

Masks are no longer required by patients in the clinic.
Staff will kindly wear masks if requested by a patient.
Active screening of patients will no longer be required.
Staff and patients will be encouraged to self-monitor and do not attend the office if they have COVID-19 symptoms.

March 1st Opening

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:06:49 +0000

Changes to public health and workplace safety measures

The following changes to public health and workplace safety measures are in effect as of March 1, 2022. For the full list of measures in effect, see O. Reg. 364/20.

capacity limits have been lifted in all indoor public settings
proof of vaccination requirements have been lifted
- businesses and organizations may choose to require proof of vaccination upon entry
other protective measures, such as mask/face covering requirements and passive screening of patrons remain in place
businesses and organizations that are open must continue to have safety plans in place

Read original article here.

Modified Step Two of the Roadmap to Reopen

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:30:33 +0000

Ontario Temporarily Moving to Modified Step Two of the Roadmap to Reopen

Time-limited measures needed to preserve hospital capacity as province continues to accelerate booster dose rollout

January 03, 2022 -Office of the Premier

In response, the province will return to the modified version of Step Two of the Roadmap to Reopen effective Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at 12:01 a.m. for at least 21 days (until January 26, 2022), subject to trends in public health and health system indicators.

These measures include:

Closing indoor sport and recreational fitness facilities including gyms, except for athletes training for the Olympics and Paralympics and select professional and elite amateur sport leagues.

Reducing social gathering limits to five people indoors and 10 people outdoors.
Requiring businesses and organizations to ensure employees work remotely unless the nature of their work requires them to be on-site.
Limiting capacity at indoor weddings, funerals, and religious services, rites and ceremonies to 50 per cent capacity of the particular room. Outdoor services are limited to the number of people that can maintain 2 metres of physical distance.
Retail settings, including shopping malls, permitted at 50 per cent capacity.
Personal care services permitted at 50 per cent capacity. Saunas, steam rooms, and oxygen bars closed.
Public libraries limited to 50 per cent capacity.
Closing indoor dining at restaurants, bars and other food or drink establishments.
Closing indoor concert venues, theatres, museums, zoos, and other venues. Outdoor establishments permitted to open with restrictions and with spectator occupancy, where applicable, limited to 50 per cent capacity.
All publicly funded and private schools will move to remote learning starting January 5 until at least January 17, subject to public health trends and operational considerations.

Read the full News Release Here

Ontario to Require Proof of Vaccination in Select Settings

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:31:56 +0000

Province to launch enhanced vaccine certificate and verification app to stop the spread of COVID-19

September 01, 2021

Office of the Premier

Key Points:

The government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, will require people to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of their vaccination status to access certain businesses and settings starting September 22, 2021.
As of September 22, 2021, Ontarians will need to be fully vaccinated (two doses plus 14 days) and provide their proof of vaccination along with photo ID to access certain public settings and facilities.
This includes:

Restaurants and bars (excluding outdoor patios, as well as delivery and takeout);
Nightclubs (including outdoor areas of the establishment);
Meeting and event spaces, such as banquet halls and conference/convention centres;
Facilities used for sports and fitness activities and personal fitness training, such as gyms, fitness and recreational facilities with the exception of youth recreational sport;
Sporting events;
Casinos, bingo halls and gaming establishments;
Concerts, music festivals, theatres and cinemas;
Strip clubs, bathhouses and sex clubs;
Racing venues (e.g., horse racing).

This does not include:

Outdoor settings (including patios)
Settings where people receive medical care, food from grocery stores, medical supplies and the like

Indoor masking policies will continue to remain in place
Individuals who cannot receive the vaccine due to medical exemptions will be permitted entry with a doctor’s note until recognized medical exemptions can be integrated as part of a digital vaccine certificate.
Children who are 11 years of age and younger and unable to be vaccinated will also be exempted from these requirements.
Ontarians currently have access to a paper or PDF vaccine receipt that includes all relevant information to prove that they are fully vaccinated.

-Full article can be found here

Proof of vaccination requirements beginning September 22 DO NOT apply to essential services like chiropractic clinics.

These requirements do not apply to the essential services provided by regulated health professionals such as chiropractors.

While not explicitly clarified, the current rules do imply that patients seeking essential health services inside the premises of a non-essential business will need to comply with proof of vaccination requirements to gain access. OCA is reaching out to the Ministry of Health for further guidance on this issue.

– Ontario Chiropractic Association

Provincial Emergency and Stay-at-Home Order

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:19:55 +0000

Ontario Enacts Provincial Emergency and Stay-at-Home Order

TORONTO — The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and other health experts, is immediately declaring a third provincial emergency under s 7.0.1 (1) of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (EMPCA). These measures are being taken in response to the rapid increase in COVID-19 transmission, the threat on the province’s hospital system capacity, and the increasing risks posed to the public by COVID-19 variantcs. (Original article found HERE)

April 7, 2021

–Office of the Premier

Stay-at-home order

A province-wide declaration of emergency and a stay-at-home order are in effect as of April 8 at 12:01 a.m. The COVID-19covid 19 Response Framework (colour-coded zones) is paused during this time.

This puts in place shutdown measures that:

are the most stringent, to address rapidly escalating conditions, including the spread of variants of concern
include business closures in higher risk sectors (for example, fitness activities, personal care service establishments, indoor and outdoor dining)

Capacity limits

As of April 8 at 12:01 a.m., the majority of non-essential stores (including malls) will only be open for curbside pick-up and delivery by appointment, and additional capacity limits may apply.

In person shopping permitted for all retail, subject to ability to maintain two metres of physical distancing and capacity limits of:

50% for supermarkets and other stores that primarily sell groceries, convenience stores and pharmacies
25% for all other retail, including discount and big box retailers, liquor stores, cannabis stores, hardware stores and garden centres

All other retail (including liquor, cannabis, hardware and pet stores)

As of April 8 at 12:01 a.m., the majority of non-essential stores will only be open for curbside pick-up and delivery, by appointment, with some exceptions. Discount and big box stores will only be open for in-person shopping for groceries, household cleaning supplies, personal care items, pharmacy items and pet supplies.

Currently open for:

in-person retail (25% capacity, where two metres physical distancing can be maintained)
curbside pick-up
delivery

Shopping malls

As of April 8 at 12:01 a.m., access to shopping malls will be limited to curbside pick-up and delivery only, by appointment.

Motor vehicle sales

As of April 8 at 12:01 a.m., in-person shopping for motor vehicles will be available by appointment only.

Businesses not permitted to open

Amusement parks, water parks
Bathhouses and sex clubs
Casinos, bingo halls and gaming establishments
Concert venues, theatres and cinemas (includes drive in or drive through events)
Day camps
Horse racing (open for training only, no races or spectators)
Motorsports
Museums and cultural amenities
Personal care services
Tour and guide services
Zoos and aquariums (permitted to operate for the care of animals)

Updated: April 7, 2021

Published: January 12, 2021

by the Ontario Ministry of Health

Click HERE for more details.

Chiropractic care is not impacted by the stay-at-home order.

Province Wide Emergency Brake

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:18:51 +0000

Ontario Implements Province Wide Emergency Brake. All 34 Public Health Unit Regions to Move into Shutdown.

Click HERE for more detailed information.

“The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and other health experts, is imposing a provincewide emergency brake as a result of an alarming surge in case numbers and COVID-19 hospitalizations across the province. The provincewide emergency brake will be effective Saturday, April 3, 2021, at 12:01 a.m. and the government intends to keep this in place for at least four weeks.

On the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, all Ontarians are asked to limit trips outside the home to necessities such as food, medication, medical appointments, supporting vulnerable community members, or exercising outdoors with members of their household. Employers in all industries should make every effort to allow employees to work from home.

Measures include, but are not limited to:

Prohibiting indoor organized public events and social gatherings and limiting the capacity for outdoor organized public events or social gatherings to a 5-person maximum, except for gatherings with members of the same household (the people you live with) or gatherings of members of one household and one other person from another household who lives alone.
Restricting in-person shopping in all retail settings, including a 50 percent capacity limit for grocery stores, convenience stores, and pharmacies, and 25 percent for all other retail including big box stores;
Prohibiting personal care services;
Prohibiting indoor and outdoor dining. Restaurants, bars and other food or drink establishments will be permitted to operate by take-out, drive-through, and delivery only;
Prohibiting the use of facilities for indoor or outdoor sports and recreational fitness (e.g., gyms);
Requiring day camps to close; and,
Limiting capacity at weddings, funerals, and religious services to 15 percent occupancy per room indoors, and to the number of individuals that can maintain two metres of physical distance outdoors. This does not include social gatherings associated with these services such as receptions, which are not permitted indoors and are limited to five people outdoors.”

April 1st, 2021

Office of the Premier

This Chiropractic Office will, however, remain open and continue to follow strict sanitation and physical distancing procedures to keep the risk of propagation of COVID-19 at a minimum.