Masks Required:

Effective June 1^st, Windom Area Health will be relaxing masking guidelines for patients, visitors and employees. While all patients/visitors and staff will need to wear a mask during treatments, appointments, and in clinical areas, masks will now be optional in common areas such as hallways, waiting rooms, cafeteria, etc. Patients and visitors to the hospital will continue to self-screen at entrances, where masks will be available. If you do not have one on at the point of entering a clinical area, staff will provide one for you.

Minnesota is making progress in vaccination, but the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has indicated we still have work to do to keep COVID-19 suppressed.

• Everyone who is eligible to be vaccinated can help do their part by scheduling a vaccination.
• Contact your health care provider to schedule a vaccination appointment or visit the state’s vaccination website at gov/vaccine.
• Minnesota is still seeing significant community transmission of COVID-19 and variant strains. Vaccination is the best mitigation strategy.

As Minnesotans adapt to this updated guidance eliminating the mask mandate, we ask our public for their continued partnership and patience.

• Hospitals and health systems care for some of our state’s most critically ill patients including patients who have weak immune systems, elderly and other patients who are at high risk for COVID-19 complications and deaths. Wearing a mask regardless of your vaccination status when you are in a health care setting helps protect these vulnerable populations.
• Hospitals and health systems continue to care for very ill patients with COVID-19 and hospitalized patients who are younger than those hospitalized earlier in the pandemic.
• We thank the public for their help in protecting our patients, staff and visitors.
  Source: Minnesota Hospital Association