CORONAVIRUS ALERT
To protect other patients, doctors and staff, when making an appointment or attending for your appointment, please advise if you or those attending the appointment with you have:
- any cold or flu like symptoms
- are currently required to isolate
If you do have any cold or flu like symptoms you will be required to do a RAT and confirm a negative result on the day of your appointment.
If you have an appointment, please do not enter the clinic. We ask for you to wait in your car and phone the clinic when you have arrived. You will be screened prior to entering the clinic, and the doctor will call you in once they are ready for you.
MASKS ARE TO BE WORN AT ALL TIMES IN OUR CLINICS.
For more information, please call the Government hotline on 1800 675 398, or via the website www.healthdirect.gov.au
OUR DOCTORS
Dr Lesley Chisholm
Dr Hugh Chisholm
Dr Graham Toohill
Dr Sewellyn Gale
Dr Chris Perry
Dr Joel Fanning
Dr Christopher Ford
Dr Christopher Webster
Dr Ben O'Leary
Dr Cassie Zhou
Dr Elise Ly
Dr Jean Nee Khoo
Dr Su Xin Lee
Dr Cynthia Tan
Dr Sam Bell
Dr. Veronica Foote
Dr Lore Mahinay
Dr James O'Sullivan
Dr Frank Wang
Practice Manager
CLINIC NEWS
TESTED POSITIVE TO COVID?
What you need to do
If you test positive on a rapid antigen test, you must:
- Report your result online or call the Coronavirus Hotline at 1800 675 398 as soon as you can.
- After you report, you will receive text messages from the Department of Health.
- Immediately isolate for 7 days from the day you took the rapid antigen test.
- Follow your Checklist and tell your contacts, and your workplace and education facility that you have COVID-19.
- Most people with COVID-19 will experience mild – to-moderate symptoms. See how to manage COVID-19 at home and isolate effectively.
Why you need to report your positive result
You are required by law to report your positive rapid antigen test result to the Department.
Reporting your positive rapid antigen test result, helps us understand how many cases of COVID-19 there are in Victoria.
This information helps us to protect others in the community and gives you the ability to be supported and receive care through the COVID Positive Pathways program as you isolate and recover - and gives to access to apply for financial support to isolate.
Your information will remain private. It is the same information that would be obtained if you tested positive on a PCR test.
masks
There are new statewide COVID-19 settings from 11.59pm, Friday 22 April, including:
* Masks are required in limited high-risk settings including:
- While visiting a hospital, care facility or an indoor publicly accessible area in a healthcare setting, including allied health settings.
Therefore Leongatha Healthcare will remain a place where you are required to wear a mask at all times
- to protect yourself
- to protect our vulnerable patients
- to protect our staff
Please bring a mask with you, and wear it covering your nose and mouth at all times.
covax - FOURTH DOSE
A fourth dose is recommended 3 months after your booster dose if you are:
- 50 years or older
- a resident of an aged care or disability care facility
- severely immunocompromised
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and aged 50 years and older.
- aged 16-64 and with a medical condition that increases the risk of severe COVID-19 illness (see the table below for expanded groups)
- aged 16 to 64 with disability with significant or complex health needs or multiple comorbidities which increase risk of poor outcome.
ATATGI has advised that people aged 30 to 49 can receive a fourth dose, however the benefit for people in this age group is less certain.
