A temporary COVID-19 facility has popped up in Burnaby at the Edmonds Urgent Care Centre, adjacent to the parking lot beside the Central Park Pool.
The "COVID site" is a destination for residents of the Vancouver suburb who have completed an online or phone self-assessment tool and who were directed to go to the site by an online tool or by their family doctor.
The website and assessment tool is up at burnabycoronavirus.com
The site will function as Burnaby’s central assessment, testing and treatment facility, according to a news release.
“With a very real threat of family practice clinics being overrun by people who are or think they might be infected, and the accompanying risk of infection spread that they bring to other patients and primary care providers, the processes being put in place provide safer, more timely options for assessment and care, including options other than face-to-face visits for all patients.”
A separate entrance and sequestered sterile treatment area have also been designated in the Edmonds UPCC for COVID-19 patients. It is providing some limited care options for those suspected to be or infected with COVID, again only as referred, because others in the community will still be able to access urgent care during the UPCC’s regular hours. “We want to ensure that urgent and primary care services for non-COVID-19 related needs can be preserved and still accessed safely by the public during this time.”
“We are asking the public not to proceed to this site unless they have been referred,” said the release.
With files from the Burnaby Now
