Originally posted June 8, 2020. Last updated September 8, 2020
Below is a one-stop-shop of considerations and guidance documents for re-opening healthcare offices and clinics, pulled from the AFHTO COVID-19 resources repository.
Ministry Resources and Directives
- COVID-19 Tip Sheet #15 - Guidance for Primary Care Providers Resuming Cancer Screening | Ontario Health, June 30, 2020
- Workplace Safety Plan | Government of Ontario
- Operational Requirements for Health Sector Restart | Ministry of Health, May 26, 2020
- Directive #2 | Ministry of Health, May 26, 2020
- COVID-19 Guidance: Primary Care Providers in a Community Setting | Ministry of Health, Revised May 22, 2020
Guidance Resources
- Reintroducing Deferred Primary Care Services | AFHTO, SGFP, OCFP, July 2020
- COVID-19 Resumption of Services* | Baawaating FHT, August 2020
- IPAC Checklist | CPSO, July 7, 2020
- Operational Requirements for In-person Care | Centre for Effective Practice, June 25, 2020
- Readiness Assessment for Delivering In-person Care | Centre for Effective Practice, June 25, 2020
- Return to Practice Framework - Guidance Document for Reopening Chiropody Services | Developed by FHT/CHC chiropodists (can be a template for IHPs), Updated Sept 2, 2020
- Return to Work Survey | Trent Hills FHT, June 10, 2020
- Safety Checklist for In-person Visits | Summerville FHT, June 2020
- Recommendations for Regional Health Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Outpatient
Care, Primary Care, and Home and Community Care | Ontario Health, June 8, 2020 - Performing a Risk Assessment | PHO
- COVID Risk Assessment Template* | Ingersoll NPLC, July 6, 2020
- Reopening Ontario to a "New Normal" | OMA
- Preparing to Resume In-person Care | OMA, June 11, 2020
- Resumption of Non-essential Health Care Services | CPSO, June 3, 2020
- Reopening Guide | Thames Valley FHT
- Reopening Guide | Ontario Health North, June 2020
- COVID-19: Recommendations for School Reopening | SickKids, June 17, 2020
- COVID-19 Workplace Risk Assessment | Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut- added Jul. 6, 2020
School reopenings
- Reopening schools and offices | Ontario Medical Association
- Paediatric screening, testing, isolation and return to school | Centre for Effective Practice, September 2020
- Environmental scan of school reopening during COVID-19 | Public Health Ontario
Articles
- Recommendations for Expanding In-person Care in Community Practice | B.C. Family Doctors, May 20, 2020
- Post-COVID Primary Care Reboot | CFPC, May 7, 2020
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NOTE: * indicates members only; ** indicates triad only