{"id":5269,"date":"2022-12-21T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebao.ca\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T22:39:09","slug":"notice-to-the-profession-toronto-public-health-letter-regarding-body-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebao.ca\/stage\/notice-to-the-profession-toronto-public-health-letter-regarding-body-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice to the Profession: Toronto Public Health Letter Regarding Body Shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This message is from Toronto Public Health to all funeral establishments and transfer services in the Toronto area. While the change in service applies only to Toronto Public Health, it is possible that other local public health units may follow suit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Toronto Funeral Homes and Transfer Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Re: Toronto Public Health Letter Regarding Body Shipments<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This letter serves to inform you that as of January 1, 2023, Toronto Public Health will no longer be providing routine letters to funeral homes and burial establishments regarding body shipments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, funeral homes and burial establishments were able to send applications and a fee to Toronto Public Health requesting a letter acknowledging that the deceased person did not die of a communicable disease. Toronto Public Health will no longer be providing this service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Read the entire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thebao.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TPH_letter_Dec21_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter from Toronto Public Health here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This message is from Toronto Public Health to all funeral establishments and transfer services in the Toronto area. While the change in service applies only to Toronto Public Health, it is possible that other local public health units may follow suit.\u00a0 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 Dear Toronto Funeral Homes and Transfer Services. Re: Toronto Public Health Letter Regarding&#8230;","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice-to-the-profession"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Notice to the Profession: Toronto Public Health Letter Regarding Body Shipments - Bereavement Authority of Ontario<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thebao.ca\/stage\/notice-to-the-profession-toronto-public-health-letter-regarding-body-shipments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Notice to the Profession: Toronto Public Health Letter Regarding Body Shipments - Bereavement Authority of Ontario\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This message is from Toronto Public Health to all funeral establishments and transfer services in the Toronto area. 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