Categories: General
      Date: May 10, 2012
     Title:  Visitors Restrictions Lifted at Rufus Guinchard Health Centre

For immediate Release

(Corner Brook, NL- May 10^th , 2012) Please be advised that the visitation restriction in place at the Long Term Care Unit at Rufus Guinchard Health Center has been lifted.  The home is now open to visitors.  The visitation restriction was in place due to a number of residents in the unit with influenza like illness.

Western Health would like to thank the public for their co-operation during the visitation restriction.  

Western Health recommends that anyone experiencing either gastrointestinal like symptoms including vomiting and/or diarrhea or flu like symptoms refrain from visiting any of our facilities until at least 48 hours after their last symptoms.

Western Health would like to thank families and visitors for their cooperation in helping prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

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Media Contact:

Heidi Staeben-Simmons

Director of Communications

Western Health

709-637-5252

heidistaebensimmons@westernhealth.nl.ca