Communicable Disease Exposures
The Communicable Disease Exposure page provides essential resources and guidelines to safeguard staff from communicable diseases. This page serves as a hub for the latest protocols, prevention strategies, and reporting procedures, ensuring staff remain informed and prepared.
A new SHA-wide communicable disease notification process for reportable and non-reportable diseases is in effect. This new process will streamline reporting processes between Public Health, IPAC and Occupation/Employee Health Nursing teams to ensure any potential exposures involving patients and/or staff are investigated in a timely manner.
See the documents and forms below:
Related Document
Staff Safety:
If you need to discuss an urgent Communicable Disease Notification outside of regular hours (evenings, weekends, or statutory holidays) that requires immediate response, please call Staff Safety Operations at 306-766-7247 or email staffsafetymanagers@saskhealthauthority.ca
IPAC:
For probable or confirmed measles case notifications in acute care or LTC sites on weekends/STAT holidays, please refer to the IPAC Leader On-Call Schedule document found on the IPAC Contact Tracing Intranet page.
Reportable Communicable Disease Notification Processes
Non-Reportable Communicable Disease Notification Processes
Public Health Communicable Disease Forms & Related Documents
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) & Ebola Disease (EBOD) Related Documents
Below are Information Sheets and Exposure Assessment Tools for SHA Health Care Workers (HCW) related to measles, mumps, invasive Group A Streptococcal (iGAS) – severe infection, invasive meningococcal disease, and pertussis (whooping cough).
Mumps
Measles
Invasive Group A Streptococcal (iGAS) – Severe
Invasive Meningococcal Disease
Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Please refer to the attached Contact List below if you need assistance from the Occupational Health Nursing teams: