Kingston Heart Clinic COVID Message

The Kingston Heart Clinic is open for all forms of cardiac testing and urgent, in person, consultations. The clinic has undergone extensive functional, procedural and structural changes to ensure both patient and staff safety and to allow for social distancing. We have also acquired medical grade UV light sterilization technology as a major method of producing a safe environment for referred patients.

TELEPHONE PATIENT ENCOUNTERS:  We will continue with most patient encounters with our physicians to be by telephone. Your Physician will call you on the date and near the time of your scheduled appointment. If after the telephone encounter you need to be seen (and you agree) an appointment can be arranged.

1. Have all your medications ready for the telephone call with your Physician.
2. Do not bring your medications to the Kingston Heart Clinic. Bring an up-to-date list of your medications.
3. If you have a blood pressure cuff, record 3 readings and average the last two. Write down the heart rate and blood pressure. We will ask for the readings.
4. Please turn off your radio or TV during the telephone encounter.
5. If you have a hearing assist device please use it during the telephone encounter.
6. Current height and weight would also be useful.

To Kingston Heart Clinic patients,

The following changes are designed to make physical distancing, while present at the Kingston Heart Clinic, a permanent arrangement. Your safety while here for any appointment is our main priority.

1. You must wear a mask, either medical or homemade, while present in the clinic. No mask no clinic appointment. We do not have the resources to provide you with a medical mask.
2. Do not attend your clinic appointment if you have a either a chest infection, cold or flu-like symptoms. Please call clinic to reschedule your appointment.  If you do attend, you will be sent home, without being seen.
3. If you have been either out of the country or out of the province within the last 2 weeks, your appointment will be rescheduled. 
4. All patients will have their temperature recorded. If your temperature is above 37.7 degrees Celsius, you will be sent home.
5. Unless there are reasons of either safety, language or disability, only the patient involved in a clinic encounter will be allowed in the clinic. 
6. Bring an up-to-date list of your current medications, (name, dose and doses/day) and supplements. Do not bring in your medication bottles into the clinic.
7. Unfortunately, having your cardiac testing and seeing the cardiologist on the same day can no longer occur. This is to reduce the number of patients present in the clinic at any one time. 
8. Multiple cardiac testing on the same day is possible for those patients who live more than 45 minutes from Kingston. However, if done, you will be asked to leave the clinic between tests if there is a significant time gap between these tests.
9. After any encounter with either a physician or any cardiac technologist you will be asked to leave the clinic immediately. Any follow up will be arranged later by telephone.