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.
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
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.
- Measles Webinar – Recorded – LGL HCPs – Public Health Call – March 7, 2024
- Measles – Entrance Screening Poster
- Measles information for Health Care Providers
- 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
Current Memos/Notices from Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
- 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
- Public Health Update – Paxlovid Antiviral – April 2022
- Ticks and Lyme Disease Memo – March 31, 2022
- Guidance from Health Canada for healthcare professionals and vaccine recipients re: AstraZeneca
- 2019 Novel Coronavirus – Canada – February 5, 2020
- Wuhan Novel Coronavirus (Wuhan-nCoV) Resources – January 23, 2020
- Ontario Takes Steps to Safeguard the Health of the Public Against the Coronavirus – January 22, 2020
- 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
- Rotavirus: Transitioning to RotaTeq® (Rot-5) Vaccine – July 20, 2018
- Immunization in Pregnancy with Adacel Vaccine – May 10, 2018
- Opioid Situation Update – January 2018