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Eye Health Centre Is Open and Offering Full Scope Services by Appointment
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the safety and well-being of our patients, staff and doctors is our first priority. Our team will continue to go above and beyond the expectations for optometry practices so that everyone who enters our practice will feel safe. We are sure that you are well aware of the concerns about COVID-19, and we would like you to know the steps we are taking. These measures include, but are not limited to:
We All Need To Wear Masks
Practice Social Distancing
We Disinfect Well & Often
Call Us With Any Questions
An Expectations Checklist—For All of Us
Precautions You Should Be Taking
- ALL patient encounters will be by appointment ONLY. Walk-ins will not be allowed.
- All patients must adhere to the provincial COVID-19 protocols regarding isolation, quarantines, and mask wearing along with social distancing.
- New patients will be required to fill out the patient information form on our website before they arrive to help cut down the paperwork and time in office.
- We ask that you arrive at your appointment alone unless you are a minor and require adult supervision then we will allow one caregiver inside with the child.
- Patients may be asked to wait in their car for their appointment, depending on how many people are in the practice at any given time
- We ask that upon entering our clinic, that you immediately wash your hands with soap and water or hand sanitizer.
- Anyone who enters the building will be required to wear a face mask. If a patient does not have a mask, we will provide one at the front door.
- We will not see anyone who shows flu-like symptoms, cold/fever, or cough.
- Staff will not shake hands with any of our patients. Please don’t take it personally. 🙂
- We will be practicing safe distancing within the clinic and we ask that you do your best to keep a minimum of 6 feet between you and other patients.
Steps Our Practice Is Taking
- Appointment times will be spaced further apart to ensure social distancing.
- Hand sanitation stations are available at the entrance and throughout the practice.
- Plexiglass shields have been installed at the front check-in desk and in the exam room.
- All of our staff and doctors will be wearing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including gloves, masks and face-shields when appropriate.
- Spread-out patient chairs in the optical and reception area are at least 6 feet apart and disinfected between each use.
- Pre-testing and examination rooms are disinfected after every patient exam, including all surfaces, instrumentation, door handles, and equipment.
- We will disinfect frames after a patient has contact with them.
- Regularly cleaning and disinfecting railings, door handles, counters, reception room areas, and all spaces where public interaction occurs.
- Limiting the number of patients in the office or any area at one time. In our large office we have the square footage to space out patients.
- We will be aware of common “touch points” within the clinic such as doorknobs, counters, keyboard, phones, credit card machines, pens, etc. and will be disinfecting these as often as possible.
- All reading material has been removed from the waiting area.
- Deep cleaning at the end of each day.
- Follow up phone calls or telephone triaging will be used as often as possible.