AHS is adopting stricter masking rules in hospitals amid COVID-19 outbreaks, but regions and hospitals are free to ignore the directive.
EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services is adopting stricter masking rules in hospitals as it deals with COVID-19 outbreaks, but regions and hospitals are free to ignore the directive.
Masks are also required for patients, helpers and visitors in emergency departments, and they could be expanded to other parts of hospitals including hallways, gift shops, cafeterias and elevators. The agency also doesn’t clarify whether a hospital, should it agree to implement a regionally mandated mask order, has to follow it to the letter or has the authority to tailor it as it sees fit, such as mandating masks in hallways but not in cafeterias.
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