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Our Emergency Department is extremely busy. Those coming will likely experience long waits. Please be patient and kind to our staff.
To protect our vulnerable patients and our staff, we will continue to require all those entering the building to be masked.
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GGH is a dynamic, comprehensive acute care facility providing a full range of services to the 200,000 residents of Guelph and Wellington County. Services include; 24-hour emergency coverage, advanced technology and diagnostic support, and specialty programs such as being the Regional provider for general vascular surgery and a designated Provincial Centre of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery.
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UPDATE: World-wide epidural catheter shortage
August 18 - Grand River, Cambridge Memorial, Groves Memorial and Guelph General hospitals continue to work together to manage the ongoing shortage of epidural catheters. All hospitals currently have supply in stock and Waterloo Wellington patients have not been impacted. Waterloo Wellington hospitals continue to meet regularly, ensuring supplies are monitored, conserved and shared. Ontario…
Hospital partnership expands access to cataract procedures
At times, the pandemic forced Ontario hospitals to severely cut back the number of elective surgeries performed in order to free up hospital beds and staff to care for COVID patients. Now, Guelph General Hospital (GGH) has partnered with Clear Vision Surgical (CVS) to significantly increase cataract surgery capacity to help shorten the wait times…
Local hospitals will continue to require masks be worn
June 8, 2022 –The provincial mandate requiring masks be worn in high risk settings ends this Saturday. Locally, hospitals will continue to require masks be worn by everyone coming into the building. “The science tells us how COVID is spread and that has not changed,” says Marianne Walker, President and CEO of Guelph General Hospital…