The emergency departments, critical care units, operating rooms and recovery rooms at Windsor Regional Hospital's two campuses are looking very different these days.
Vice President of Critical Care at Windsor Regional Hospital Karen Riddell says those areas have undergone and are going through infrastructure changes to deal with incoming patients suffering from COVID-19.
Speaking on AM800's the Morning Drive, Riddell says there are a lot of plexiglass and zippered rooms to isolate the COVID-19 patients from other patients who don't have the virus.
"Put up isolation rooms, segregated waiting rooms, segregated triage areas and the purpose of that is really to protect our other patients that are coming into the building that are not necessarily possible or confirmed case of COVID19."
Riddell says in addition to admitted patients they also need to protect the public, adding there are isolation rooms, segregated waiting rooms and triage areas.
"To provide additional protection for our healthcare workers so these are enclosed isolation rooms that help protect spread of the organism if we are doing certain procedures with patients especially emergency procedures where we might be aerosolizing the virus."
Riddell points out there are a couple of thousand health care workers going to work every day and it is important to keep them safe to care for the patients.
So far, there are three confirmed cases in Windsor-Essex and no confirmed cases in the hospital.