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Two and done.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the reality of the seasonal care clinic in Chatham-Kent.<\/p>\n
A joint effort by the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance and C-K EMS, it ran out of a trailer outside the Chatham emergency department ran Monday to Friday during the day during the respiratory ailment season.<\/p>\n
Last flu season, the clinic served more than 1,300 people. In doing so, it helped divert people out of the emergency department, easing the pressure on that unit.<\/p>\n
The plan was to serve people who did not have a physician\/nurse practitioner or could not be seen in a timely manner by their primary health-care provider during the seasonal surge of cold, flu and respiratory illness.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s where it fell short.<\/p>\n
Caen Suni, vice-president of clinical programs and operations, said between 80 and 90 per cent of the people who utilized the clinic did have a primary-care provider.<\/p>\n
Sliding over to the clinic was done out of convenience.<\/p>\n
While the seasonal care clinic won\u2019t operate, Suni said the bridge care clinic on Emma Street will continue to run. It\u2019s a weekend clinic run for people who do not have a primary-care health provider, be they a doctor or nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n
As for what is to come this respiratory illness season, Suni said health officials aren\u2019t yet sure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we have a good sense of what to expect. The last couple of years were interesting,\u201d he said. \u201cWe shifted hard into flu (last year) and then strep the year before that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suni encourages everyone to get a flu shot this fall, as well as a Covid booster.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have more of a strategy rolling out as the flu season approaches. I strongly advise residents to get vaccinated for flu and Covid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two and done. That\u2019s the reality of the seasonal care clinic in Chatham-Kent. A joint effort by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-197460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}