If you are waiting for a surgery, you will be contacted to reschedule your surgery or procedure.

It is still safe to seek care. Please consider wearing mask if you have any cold or flu symptoms and please stay home if you are feeling unwell. We ask that you please continue to clean your hands at the hospital entrances and throughout your visit.

The most important thing you can do to prevent COVID-19 is to clean your hands regularly and avoid touching your face. Clean your hands often with alcohol-based hand sanitizer or soap and water, especially after touching shared surfaces or objects and before eating. Pregnant women need to be careful with the hand sanitizer they use. Read the label before use as some products, including acetylaldehyde, are not appropriate during pregnancy or when breastfeeding. Stay two metres apart from people when you can. 

‎ ‎On April 6, 2023, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced changes to the COVID-19 guidance for health care settings. This change included an end to universal masking.

To protect our clinically vulnerable patients, we will continue to make masks available at the entrances to our hospital. We may also require masks in some areas of our hospital.

Please consider wearing a mask if you have any cold or flu symptoms and please stay home if you are feeling unwell. We ask that you please continue to clean your hands at the hospital entrance and throughout your visit.

There will still be some situations where masks will be required in health-care settings or situations where they have always been required to protect high-risk patients against respiratory transmitted infections and protect workers against high-risk exposure to infectious diseases.

Thank your for your patience as we work to make these changes.

If your partner is sick they should not come to the hospital. Please identify a back-up support person in case your partner is sick. In order to keep our staff and other patients safe we require your support person to be well.

You and your support person will be on isolation. Care will be based on your symptoms at the time. You can expect continuous electronic fetal monitoring during labour to assess your baby’s wellbeing. After birth, we will keep you and baby together if at all possible. We consider skin to skin contact, delayed cord clamping and breast feeding safe at this time. If you need to go to the operating room, we may take more steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We will encourage you to practice good hand hygiene when caring for your baby. We will also advise you to wear a mask if you breastfeed. Your baby will be tested for COVID-19. Ask your primary care provider for more information.

We continue to encourage masking and hand cleaning. There may be extra precautionary measures visible, for instance, health-care workers are often wearing more personal protective equipment. 

Yes, siblings of a patient may accompany parents or legal guardians. 

Breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic. Human milk has antibodies and immune factors that protect the health of your baby.  Wash your hands before and after providing care,  holding or feeding your baby, and wear a mask if you are sick. 

If temporary separation from your baby is required,  you are encouraged to express your milk. You may reuse your breast pump kit as long as you wash your breast pump, parts, and feeding equipment carefully each time. 

For more info on expressing milk and cleaning your breast pump visit: Expressing breast milk

BCCDC COVID-19 Guidelines for breastfeeding