Closed Confirmed Reportable Outbreaks Excluding COVID19
List of closed confirmed reportable outbreaks, excluding COVID-19, in Ottawa long-term care homes (LTCH), retirement homes (RH), and hospitals from 2020 onwards.
Date Created: August 2025
Update Frequency: Daily from Mondays to Fridays, excluding statutory holidays
Last Reviewed: August 2025
Accuracy, Completeness, and Known Issues:
Outbreak data are extracted by OPH from the integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS), Ontario Ministry of Health.
iPHIS is a dynamic disease reporting system that allows for ongoing updates; data represent a snapshot at the time of extraction and may differ from previous or subsequent extractions.
Outbreaks and associated fields (e.g., cases, deaths, closure dates) were reported and determined based on the definitions available from the Ontario Ministry of Health at the time the outbreak was reported.
The start date is based on the date the outbreak was reported to Ottawa Public Health and declared an outbreak. The symptom onset date of the index case typically precedes this date.
Includes all closed, confirmed outbreaks in Ottawa long-term care homes, retirement homes, and hospitals reported to Ottawa Public Health during the period from January 1, 2020 to date.
Use caution when analyzing by “Location Name” due to variation in the description, spelling and case of the names. iPHIS utilizes a free text field for “Location Name”.
Outbreak case and death counts are typically only reported two weeks post outbreak closure due to data entry lag into the disease reporting systems. Counts may include cases that are not laboratory-confirmed.
As of November 14, 2022, all symptomatic individuals in healthcare institutions (long-term care homes, retirement homes, public hospitals) may be tested for influenza and RSV, while only the first 4 symptomatic individuals are tested for other respiratory viruses (e.g. parainfluenza). Subsequent symptomatic individuals are counted as cases if they have a common epidemiological link (e.g. same unit, same floor).
Attributes:
- Outbreak Identification Number - text
- Facility Type – text
- Location Name - text
- Outbreak Type - text
- Aetiologic Agent – text
- Start Date – Date outbreak declared
- End Date – Date outbreak declared over
- Resident/ Patient Cases – number
- Resident/ Patient Deaths – number
- Staff Cases – number
- Staff Deaths – number
- Total Cases – number
- Total Deaths – number
Data Steward: Epidemiology & Evidence, Ottawa Public Health
Data Steward Email: [email protected]
Department or Agency: Ottawa Public Health
Branch/Unit: Epidemiology and Evidence Team
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Additional Info
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| Last Updated | March 24, 2026, 20:40 (UTC) |
| Created | March 24, 2026, 20:40 (UTC) |
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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Closed Confirmed Reportable Outbreaks Excluding COVID19 |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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List of closed confirmed reportable outbreaks, excluding COVID-19, in Ottawa long-term care homes (LTCH), retirement homes (RH), and hospitals from 2020 onwards. Date Created: August 2025 Accuracy, Completeness, and Known Issues: Outbreak data are extracted by OPH from the integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS), Ontario Ministry of Health.
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Data Steward: Epidemiology & Evidence, Ottawa Public Health |
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
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Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
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312.0 |
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Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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2025-12-09 |
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Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
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public |
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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Open Data | City of Ottawa |
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Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::closed-confirmed-reportable-outbreaks-excluding-covid19 |
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Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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City of Ottawa |
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Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
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[email protected] |
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Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
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City of Ottawa |
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Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Author Email
Email of the author.
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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2026-01-28 |
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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8e6b3d5ca1184940a7f9d3e32e539acb |
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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English |
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Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::closed-confirmed-reportable-outbreaks-excluding-covid19 |
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Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
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Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
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Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
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Version
Version of the datatset
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None |
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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None |
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Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
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Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
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Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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City of Ottawa |
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
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1018 |
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Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
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27 |
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Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
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27486 |
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Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
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Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
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Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
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Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
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Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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