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It is recommended that you contact a doctor, nurse or health care provider, or visit a travel health clinic, preferably six weeks before you travel.

Travel health services are available in most communities or through your family doctor. One way to find a health care site that provides travel health services is through the Public Health Agency of Canada’s list of designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres. 

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Notice: The list of clinics below may contain inaccurate or out-of-date entries, including information for clinics that are no longer designated as Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres. We continue to work to update our database and correct these listings. Please contact [email protected] with questions, or to verify if the clinic you are visiting for your Yellow Fever vaccine has a current, valid designation.

The following is a list of health care sites that have been designated as Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres by the Public Health Agency of Canada, on behalf of Canada, in order to meet the requirements of the International Health Regulations .

The Public Health Agency of Canada does not provide medical advice to individual travellers. For advice specific to your travel plans, please consult a health care provider. Travellers going to yellow fever areas will find additional information in the Questions & Answers section.

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Travel Wellness

When you travel, your health goes with you.

Sobeys Pharmacy has several Travel Wellness Clinic locations across Canada that specialize in travel health to give you the best advice on travel-related health issues, make recommendations, and ensure you're up to date on all of your required vaccinations.

Visit www.travelwellness.ca for more details on these services and locations.

In addition, some services may be available at your local Sobeys Pharmacy. Talk to your Sobeys Pharmacist about the travel vaccine and other services available at your location*.

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To book an appointment, contact one of our locations below.

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Travel medicine

When you’re traveling abroad, you want every aspect of your trip to go well. Unfortunately, each year as many as 25 percent of Americans who travel abroad experience some type of illness during their trip. On a typical two-week trip, travelers can lose an average of three days because of illness.

The Edward-Elmhurst Health travel medicine specialists can help you take proactive steps to stay healthy and make most of your experience. Contact our travel medicine specialists at least six weeks before your departure , and we’ll customize a plan that prepares you for every place on your itinerary.

What to expect at the travel medicine clinic

When you visit our travel medicine clinic, you’ll consult with one of our specialists about your trip. The discussion will cover:

• All the places you’re visiting, the purpose and timing of your travels, and how long you plan to stay
• Activities you’re planning on your trip, such as mountain climbing or mission work
• Your vaccination and medical history, including allergies
• Your current medications

Travel medicine tailored to your needs

Based on your consultation, we will recommend the appropriate vaccines and prescriptions for your trip. Recommendations will be customized to your unique needs. For example, you may need medication to limit altitude sickness during a climbing expedition. You’ll also learn how to plan for water and food safety, protect yourself from disease-carrying mosquitoes, and deal with traveler’s diarrhea and other common ailments.

We carefully consider the risks and benefits of vaccines and medicines and, in some cases, provide an explanatory waiver rather than a vaccination. This document explains the decision not to give a vaccine, typically due to a person's age, medical condition or current medications.

Vaccines and immunizations

The Edward-Elmhurst travel medicine clinic offers the following vaccines:

• Hepatitis A and B
• Japanese encephalitis
• Yellow Fever*

*CDC Certified Yellow Fever Immunization site.

Certain vaccinations may require more than one dose and/or a follow-up consultation.

Make an appointment six weeks in advance

Travel medicine consultations must be scheduled in advance. A 4-6 week lead time is strongly recommended for most vaccinations, as there may be a waiting period before the vaccine becomes effective. Payment is due at the time of service. Most insurance companies do not reimburse for this service.

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Edward Hospital Campus 100 Spalding, Suite 212 Naperville, IL 60540

To schedule an appointment, call 630-527-7299 .

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There are several places you can get vaccines and medicine before you travel.

Call your doctor or local health department to see if they can provide pre-travel advice, vaccines, and medicines.

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If you want to see a travel medicine specialist, the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) can help you find a clinic.

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Stay healthy abroad: Why you should see a travel medicine specialist before your trip

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As you get ready to travel to another country, you probably have many details to coordinate and plan. One essential task, depending on where those travels take you, may be to make an appointment to see a travel medicine specialist.

A travel medicine specialist assesses travel-related risks and provides information to ensure your health and safety while minimizing the potential for health-related situations during your trip. 

Adding a consultation to your travel to-do list

A consultation with a travel medicine specialist includes discussing travel-related illnesses, risk factors for infectious and noninfectious diseases,  required immunizations , health regulations and drug-resistant organisms you may encounter.

It's crucial to schedule a pretravel consultation at least two weeks — and preferably 4 to 8 weeks — before your trip to ensure you get complete protection from any needed vaccinations. When requesting a travel medicine consultation, be prepared to provide information about your trip, including:

• All countries being visited
• Any transportation, accommodation or other circumstances that are out of the usual 
• Dates and duration of travel

A travel medicine specialist will review your itinerary before your consultation to identify country-by-country health risks, such as exotic infectious agents, the potential for altitude sickness or heat exhaustion, as well as appropriate vaccinations and possible need for malaria-prevention medications. 

Your opportunity to learn about staying healthy abroad

A consultation gives you the opportunity to learn about health risks you may face while you're traveling and once you reach your destinations. Based on your itinerary, the travel medicine specialist may: 

• Explain the risks of infection from mosquito-borne illnesses and the steps for protecting yourself. This includes reviewing medications to prevent  malaria, which is a potentially life-threatening illness.
• Ensure you receive protection against vaccine-preventable illnesses, such as  hepatitis A  or  typhoid fever , and verify that other  routine vaccinations  are current.
• Evaluate your overall health for travel and discuss with you how to manage preexisting conditions.
• Give tips for preventing jet lag, motion sickness, altitude illness and  blood clots .
• Go over how to prevent and treat  traveler's diarrhea , the most common travel-related illness.
• Help you reduce the chance of becoming ill during travel.
• Provide a  yellow fever  vaccination and an International Certificate of Vaccination, also known as a yellow card, if you travel to a country where the vaccine is recommended or required.
• Review food and water precautions. Contaminated food and water can pose disease risk for travelers, many of which are transmitted via by swallowing or coming in contact with impure water, such as fresh or sea water and swimming pools.

Be sure to ask the specialist any questions you may have about your personal health and raise any safety concerns about your travel itinerary.  

Get sick on your trip? Check-in with a travel medicine specialist

Once you return home, a travel medicine specialist also can conduct a comprehensive post-travel evaluation of any illnesses you may have picked up while away, including parasitic infections and other tropical diseases that are rare in the U.S.

No matter the reason for travel — vacation, business, studying abroad, visiting friends or relatives or medical tourism — always be prepared and take steps to ensure your health and safety.

  Raj Palraj, M.B.B.S., M.D. , specializes in  infectious diseases  in  La Crosse, Wisconsin . 

This article first appeared on the  Mayo Clinic Health System blog .

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Despite recruitment efforts, Nova Scotia Health's spending on travel nurses provided by private companies jumped by millions of dollars this year and its options to find more staff are limited.

Travel nurses, who are sometimes known as "agency" or "locum" staff, are health-care workers who are employed by private companies that provide extra nursing staff where they're needed.

"It's a really hard thing to reconcile," said  Anna Marenick, a vice-president at Nova Scotia Health in charge of human resources.

"If the choice is between hiring agencies and at least making sure that we've got coverage in some of our units so that we have the most number of resources that we can for patient care, versus not hiring travel nursing companies and running even shorter, neither option is great." 

The predecessor of Nova Scotia Health in Halifax, Capital Health, told CBC News it started using travel nurses in 2015, and said at the time, the cost would be about $300,000 for three months and a dozen nurses.

In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, Nova Scotia Health spent $8.16 million on travel nurse services, which included registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse practitioners (NPs), patient attendants, unit aides and unit clerks. That number was part of $1.7 billion spent on staff compensation in the province. In the 2021-2022 fiscal year the total was $8.89 million.

So far in the current fiscal year, which began in April, it has spent $11.4 million on travel nurse services.

This is in addition to $21.5-million the province of Nova Scotia allocated for travel nurses in long-term care homes , starting in late 2021. 

National report shows increasing staff at agencies

A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released Thursday concluded that the overall number of health professionals like doctors, nurses and pharmacists increased between 2020 and 2021, but in some areas of direct patient care their numbers declined. 

The CIHI report found the numbers of nurses in long-term care and community health agencies dropped between 2020 and 2021. At the same time, CIHI concluded there was an increase in nurses working at "private nursing agencies, occupational health centres and self-employment." 

Many nurses say the higher pay and reliable schedules available through travel nursing is attracting staff to move away from public-sector jobs.

The work is particularly tempting for early career staff such as Kevin Cummings, a travel nurse originally from Ontario, who now works in long-term care in Newfoundland on a one-year contract. 

Cummings, 29, made the transition to travel nursing partly to get a better work-life balance. 

He worked through the pandemic as a registered nurse at an Ontario long-term care facility. That's when he saw nurses with many more years of seniority were unable to take a day off when they needed it due to staffing shortages. 

"In order for them to even get a day off they had to call in sick," he said.  

Cummings says he was called in to work when he wasn't scheduled and was unable to get time off even when he asked for it months in advance. He sometimes felt the staffing shortage wasn't safe for him or for the people he was caring for. 

The higher wage for travel nursing was also attractive, with Cummings seeing his hourly pay jump from $35 an hour to $60 an hour. 

"Getting that jump right away was a huge factor in going to travel nursing," he said.  

He puts money aside for the future as his job does not come with workplace benefits or a pension, but he feels in the long run he'll come out even. 

"I have a little bit more of a life now, which is very strange to me," he said. "For the first time in my life I'm like, 'What do I do with all this time?'"

When he reflects on the things that would entice younger nurses to stay in one spot longer, he said an increase in pay and being able to take time off are the top priorities. 

"For me personally, if you are going to give me the respect of, 'Hey, I'm asking for these days off and you're going to give them to me,' I'll pick up other shifts. I'll rearrange my schedule to make sure that whatever needs to get done is going to get done," he said. 

Listening to staff

Marenick, the VP at Nova Scotia Health, said the organization is trying to work with administrators to improve scheduling and give staff more flexibility. She also said N.S. Health wants to listen to what staff have to say.

She said N.S. Health is working on a pilot program in which staff will be offered a "stay" interview where nurses can talk about what would improve working conditions and morale. 

Marenick said the big things she's heard include the same concerns travel nurses have identified about scheduling and wages. But there are also small adjustments that can help including better on-boarding or making sure that housekeeping staff is always available. 

As of October 2022, there were 1,594 nurse vacancies across the acute care system in the province, including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nurse practitioners.

Nova Scotia Health has staffing contracts with the private companies Greenstaff Medical, Select Medical Connections, Northern Nursing Solutions, Northern Medical Connections, Blessed Heart Staffing, Nurse Next Door, Helping Hands Nursing Services and Carecor Health Services.

Of the companies Nova Scotia Health contracts with, the most significant is Carecor Health Services, which announced in 2018 it had won a three-year contract from Nova Scotia Health to provide nursing services to hospitals in the province's central zone. The contract was renewed in April 2022.

Tender documents said the actual number of hours nurses would be called in would depend on "future needs" and therefore the annual costs could only be estimated. But the original amount awarded was valued at $51.2 million.

The IWK Health Centre for children's care in Halifax was not part of the Carecor contract, and it told CBC News that it does not use travel nurses.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shaina Luck is an investigative reporter with CBC Nova Scotia. She has worked with local and network programs including The National and The Fifth Estate. Email: [email protected]

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