Media Advisory: Update on Students with Incomplete Immunization Records
Update on Students with Incomplete Immunization Records
Update on Students with Incomplete Immunization Records
Update on Students with Incomplete Immunization Records
Update on Students with Incomplete Immunization Records
“The Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) (1990), Section 11, Subsections (1) and (2) require public health units to maintain and review immunization records for every student attending school in Ontario; and to enforce a school suspension on students with incomplete immunization records.
There has been a significant increase of measles activity worldwide, with measles cases recently reported in Ontario.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is proud to have entered a multi-faceted memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Windsor (UW) in 2022 to better serve the public health needs of Windsor-Essex County.
The programs and services provided to the public by the WECHU are listed as Program Standards under the OPHS.
To understand our planned services and budget, it is imperative to understand the needs of the community in Windsor and Essex County (WEC) including the public health challenges we face and attempt to address with finite financial and human resources.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is a publicly funded organization; as such the WECHU has a responsibility to spend funds prudently with the objective of providing public health programs and services as required by the Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA) and the Ontario Public Health Standards: Requirements for Programs, Services, and Accountability (OPHS).
2024 quarterly report, a budget-to-actual variance analysis is prepared for the BOH to supplement the quarterly reporting requirements to both the MOH and MCCSS.