Health Care & Dental Professionals
Welcome to resources on several health topics that we hope will be helpful to you in your practice. If there is anything else that you would like information about, please let us know.
Reportable Diseases Toolkit
You can find up-to-date, credible information on all 68 diseases of public health significance including symptoms, testing, and treatment on the Reportable Diseases Toolkit.
Measles Preparedness and Response
We will continue to post updated communications and resources in this section over the coming weeks as the Measles situation unfolds.
- Suspect Measles: 1-page Checklist for Health Care Providers
- Measles Fact Sheet
- Measles Webinar – Recorded – LGL HCPs – Public Health Call – March 7, 2024
- Measles – Entrance Screening Poster
- Measles information for Health Care Providers – Updated March 21, 2024
- CMOH Memo February 20, 2024
- Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Measles
- Letter to parents through schools and daycares February 27, 2024
- PHAC Travel Health Notices – Measles
Updates for Health Care and Dental Professionals
Public Health Ontario’s homepage includes “Hot Topics” which reviews in detail the current information on circulating or emerging diseases.
- Monkeypox
- Public Health Ontario – Hot Topics
- High Sodium Levels in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Municipal Drinking Water Systems
Current Memos/Notices from Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – October 1, 2024
- Rabies Memo to HCPs – September 9, 2024
- CMOH Memo Rabies to Hospitals and Primary Care – September 6, 2024
- Information Session for Hospitals: Infant and High-risk Children RSV Prevention Program – September 10, 2024
- CMOH MPOX Memo – September 17, 2024
- Mpox V3.0 Antiviral Guidance September 2024
- Mpox V6.0 Vaccine Guidance September 2024
- CMOH Memo Legionella – September 20, 2024
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – September 3, 2024
- RSV Fact Sheet
- Immunity Fact Sheet – RSV infant high-risk children
- Infant RSV Guidance for Health Care Providers – Beyfortus
- Beyfortus Fact Sheet
- Infant RSV Guidance for Health Care Providers – Abrysvo
- Abrysvo in Pregnancy Fact Sheet
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – July 31, 2024 – September 2024 School Suspensions
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – July 31, 2024 – Recent Pertussis Cases
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – July 16, 2024
- Notice Pertussis Test Kits to LGL HCPs – Hospital IPAC – July 16, 2024
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – June 4, 2024
- Tick-borne Diseases: Presentation to Health Care Providers, Dr. Linna Li, April 19, 2024
- Memo: LGL HCPs Public Health Update – April 30, 2024
- Kingston HIV-STI Symposium 2024 Poster
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – April 2, 2024
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – March 5, 2024
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – February 6, 2024
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – January 9, 2024
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – December 5, 2023
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – November 7, 2023
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – October 3, 2023
- Acute Care Avian Influenza Surveillance Update
- UIIP CMOH Letter to HCPs EN v3
- UIIP PHU Operational Info v3. Final
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – September 5, 2023
- IPAC Considerations for Infectious Respiratory Diseases for Community Practices July 2023 (ON College of Family Physicians)
- Summary LGL HCPs Public Health Call – June 6 2023
- Recap of LGL HCPs Public Health Call – May 2, 2023
- Rabies Immune Globulin (Rablg) – Administration Returned to Previous Regular Practices – December 23, 2019
- Update on Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis – August 8, 2019
- Reported Cases of Blastomycosis – July 24, 2019
- Foot Care Equipment – July 9, 2019
- Reprocessing CPAP Equipment – June 2019
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Confirmed in Lanark Country – June 7, 2019
- One Additional Case of International-Travel related Measles reported to Ottawa Public Health – April 8, 2019
- Zostavax® Supply – March 12, 2019
- Measles – March 10, 2019
- Non-Medical Cannabis Resource – March 8, 2019
- Ticks and Lyme Diseases Memo – February 22, 2019
- Closed Family Day – Monday, February 18, 2019
- Parents Can Now Opt-Out of Prophylactic Eye Treatment to Prevent Ophthalmia Neonatorum – February 4, 2019
- Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) Complaint Protocol in Clinical Office Settings – January 2019