Quinte Health is requiring staff, patients, and visitors to wear masks in patient-facing areas of their hospitals and community-based programs effective Monday, Dec 22, 2025.
This includes emergency departments, clinics, waiting rooms, diagnostic imaging, and inpatient units (including when visiting patients in their rooms).
Quinte Health asks the community to please adhere to this masking requirement to help protect the vulnerable patients during respiratory illness season.
Staff, patients, and loved ones do not need to wear masks in non-patient care areas (e.g., offices, hallways, washrooms, lobbies, cafeterias, meeting rooms). Please consider your vulnerabilities and level of comfort when deciding whether or not to mask in these common areas. Your decision to continue masking will be supported and respected.
If you have symptoms of illness, please put on a mask at the hospital entrance and leave it on.
Quinte Health asks that people do not visit patients if they have any symptoms of illness.
