{"id":11827,"date":"2026-07-14T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:52:44","slug":"changes-to-the-hospitals-mask-wearing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/archives\/11827","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Hospital\u2019s Mask-Wearing Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective Tuesday, July 14, 2026, the mask-wearing policy within the hospital will change.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, we have asked everyone to wear a mask while inside the hospital. However, as the infection situation has stabilized, the decision to wear a mask within the hospital will now be left to each individual, including patients, visitors, healthcare professionals, and all others entering the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>However, we ask that you wear a mask in the following situations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have a fever or respiratory symptoms such as coughing, a runny nose, sore throat, or sneezing.<\/li>\n<li>Depending on a patient\u2019s condition, hospital staff may ask you to wear a mask.<\/li>\n<li>Depending on the prevalence of infectious diseases, we may ask you to wear a mask. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11822 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/hfgroup.local:10005\/kano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mask_announcement.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1055\" height=\"1491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please see <a href=\"\/kano\/for-visitors\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective Tuesday, July 14, 2026, the mask-wearing policy within the hospital will change. Until now, we have  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11828,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartfull.or.jp\/kano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}