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How the Montreal Heart Institute has kept out COVID-19 and kept right on performing surgeries

from CBC News

How the Montreal Heart Institute has kept out COVID-19 and kept right on performing surgeries CBC News In mid-March, as hospitals across Quebec scrambled to cancel surgeries, all but shutting down their operating rooms to free up beds for COVID-19 patients, the Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal came up with a very different plan: how to keep its operating rooms going full steam ahead through a pandemic. The specialty hospital, also known as the Montreal Heart Institute, was told by the government if at all possible, it would not be treating COVID patients. That meant it could keep doing surgery — as long as it remained COVID-free. READ MORE

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