Highest Priority Health Care Workers |
All hospital and acute care staff in frontline roles with COVID-19 patients and/or with a high-risk of exposure to COVID-19, including those performing aerosol-generating procedures
| - Critical care units
- Emergency departments and urgent care departments
- COVID-19 medical units
- Code blue teams, rapid response teams
- General internal medicine and other specialists involved in the direct care of COVID-19 positive patients
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All patient-facing health care workers involved in the COVID-19 response
| - COVID-19 specimen collection centers (e.g., assessment centers, community COVID-19 testing locations)
- Teams supporting outbreak response (e.g., IPAC teams supporting outbreak management, inspectors in the patient environment, redeployed health care workers supporting outbreaks or staffing crisis in congregate living settings)
- COVID-19 vaccine clinics and mobile immunization teams
- Mobile testing teams COVID-19 isolation centers
- COVID-19 laboratory services
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Medical first responders | - ORNGE, paramedics
- Firefighters and police providing medical first response
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Community health care workers serving specialized populations | - Needle exchange/syringe programs, supervised consumption and treatment services
- Aboriginal health access centers, Indigenous community health centers, Indigenous interprofessional primary care teams, and Indigenous nurse practitioner-led clinics
- Home and community care health care workers caring for recipients of chronic homecare and seniors in congregate living facilities or providing hands-on care to COVID-19 patients in the community
Special considerations for the following: o Community health centers serving disproportionally affected communities and/or communities experiencing highest burden of health, social and economic impacts from COVID-19 o Highly critical health care workers in remote and hard to access communities, e.g., sole practitioner
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Very High Priority Health Care Workers |
Acute care and other hospital settings | - Patient care areas not included in Highest Priority (e.g., surgical care, obstetrics, etc.)
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Congregate settings | - Assisted living, correctional settings, residential facilities, hospices and palliative care settings, shelters, supportive housing (outside of Highest Priority level)
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Community care with high risk of exposure and serving specialized patient populations | - Community health centers, home and community care (outside of the Highest Priority level), adult day programs for seniors
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Other health care services for Indigenous populations |
- Community agencies with patient-facing providers delivering any type of health services to First Nations communities and Indigenous Peoples that are not captured in Highest Priority
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Community care with high risk of exposure and serving the general population |
- Birth centres, community based specialists, death investigation professionals (including funeral home staff handling deceased persons and entering healthcare facilities), dentistry, gynecology/obstetrics, midwifery, nurse practitioner-led clinics / contract nursing agencies, otolaryngology (ENT), pharmacies, primary care, respirology (respiratory therapy), walk-in clinics
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Laboratory services |
- Those who are either patient facing or work with lab specimens
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High Priority Health Care Workers |
Community care with lower risk of exposure and serving special populations | - Developmental services, mental health and addictions services
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Community care with lower risk of exposure and serving general population | - Campus health, community diagnostic imaging, daycare/school nursing, dietary/ nutrition, independent health facilities (e.g., opticians/optometry, podiatry, audiology, medical and surgical specialties, naturopathy/holistic care, social work, sexual health clinics)
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Non-acute rehabilitation and therapy | - Chiropractic, chronic pain clinics, kinesiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, registered massage therapy / acupuncture, other therapy
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Public health | |
Moderate Priority Health Care Workers |
Non-frontline | - E.g. those working remotely and who do not require PPE to work
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