A nurse practitioner will be available at the Richards Landing-Matthews Site from Saturday morning to Monday morning<\/p>\n
Update:<\/p>\n
The North Shore Health Network is extending an emergency department closure in Richards Landing.<\/p>\n
The ER at the Matthews Site shut down today at 8 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was originally expected to reopen 24 hours later, however NSHN now says it will stay closed until 8 a.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n
Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should still call 9-1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ambulances will be re-routed to one of the closest emergency departments to the Richards Landing – Matthews Site which are Sault Area Hospital, and the Thessalon Site which is due to reopen at 8 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
In addition, as part of a new initiative, a nurse practitioner will be available at the Richards Landing-Matthews Site to provide timely care for urgent health concerns from 9 a.m. Saturday, October 18 to 8 a.m. Monday, October 20.<\/p>\n
Original release below:<\/p>\n
The North Shore Health Network (NSHN) is informing the community of an upcoming Emergency Department closure due to physician shortages:<\/p>\n
\n\tTHESSALON SITE:
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\n\t\tFrom 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 17 reopening at 8\u00a0a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18.
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\n\tRICHARDS LANDING \u2013 MATTHEWS SITE:
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\n\t\tFrom 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 17 reopening at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18.
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The North Shore Health Network continues to investigate all possible options to provide safe access to care and to avoid closure. Efforts to find coverage are ongoing and should a physician be secured NSHN will reverse the closure and update the community as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should call 9-1-1. Ambulances will be re-routed to one of the following:<\/p>\n
The closest Emergency Departments to the Thessalon and Richards Landing – Matthews Site are:<\/p>\n
\n\tSault Area Hospital \u2013 750 Great Northern Rd., Sault Ste. Marie
\n\tBlind River Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 525 Causley St., Blind River,
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Access to services for non-emergent health advice or information is available by contacting Health811 by calling 8-1-1. Toll free TTY line: 1-866-797-007. Or start a live chat with an advisor online<\/a>.<\/p>\n NSHN would like to thank the community for your continued patience and understanding during this time as we work with our partners toward sustainable resources to serve your healthcare needs. For further information please visit our website:\u00a0www.nshn.care<\/a>\u00a0or via Facebook \u201cNorth Shore Health Network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nurse practitioner will be available at the Richards Landing-Matthews Site from Saturday morning to Monday morning Update:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,106040],"class_list":{"0":"post-220347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-north-shore-health-networkphysician-shortageemergency-department-closure"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}