Psychiatric Care Hospital

Please note: Wearing a mask is now optional in our facilities, for healthcare workers as well as users, companions and visitors, but remains mandatory in the following situations:

Health conditions

• If you have symptoms of respiratory infection or gastroenteritis, please postpone your visit. If this is not possible, please proceed with hand hygiene and wear a mask as soon as you enter one of our facilities.

• Wearing a mask is recommended for people whose health is at risk.

Clinical areas (care units, emergency, open ambulatory clinics) that receive users with one or more criteria of vulnerability, such as:

• Hemato-oncology patients;

• Babies in the nursery;

• Patients with severe immunosuppression (transplant patients, those undergoing active chemotherapy, etc.);

• Users in hemato-oncology or with severe immunosuppression receiving treatment in hemodialysis units.

OR

• On any unit experiencing a respiratory infection outbreak;

• As directed by the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Service of the Montréal West Island CIUSSS.