Collins said the hard lessons learned from SARS, served as a catalyst for the suite of 85 negative-pressure rooms at the Humber hospital. “We choose to put negative-pressure rooms in every department,” she said. The negative-pressure rooms are used for regular patient care when they’re not handling patients with contagious illnesses. Sign Up NowHota said negative-pressure rooms exist on every in-patient unit across UHN hospitals. The emergency and intensive-care units are also equipped with negative-pressure rooms.

Source: thestar January 31, 2020 23:37 UTC