Dr. Shelly McNeil, senior medical director for COVID planning and implementation for Nova Scotia Health, called it the 'gradual evolution' of dealing with COVID-19 in the health care system.
Hospitals in Nova Scotia no longer have designated COVID-19 units. This file photo shows the emergency entrance of the QEII in Halifax.Nova Scotians who are admitted to the hospital while sick with COVID-19 are no longer being treated separately from patients who have not contracted the virus.
It's now using a "care in place" model, meaning all patients will be treated in whichever unit or facility of the hospital that meets their needs, regardless of COVID-19 status. "We're seeing a shift to patients that tend to be complex medically, so they have lots of underlying medical problems, and COVID is tipping them over the edge, so to speak, with regard to other medical problems," McNeil said.
"It might be making their underlying lung disease worse, or their underlying heart disease worse, or other things. So they're not needing the same type of intensive respiratory support that we were seeing in the beginning phases of the pandemic."
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