The emergency department will be closed from 8 a.m. Monday until 8 p.m. Tuesday<\/p>\n
A 24-hour closure of\u00a0the emergency department in Thessalon is planned for this week due to physician shortages.<\/p>\n
The North Shore Health Network announced today that the closure will last from 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 10 until 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11.<\/p>\n
“The North Shore Health Network continues to investigate all possible options to provide safe access to care and to avoid closure,” the health network said in a prepared statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“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
The health network also said that anyone acquiring immediate medical attention should call 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ambulances will be-routed to one of the following closest emergency departments:<\/p>\n
\n\tBlind River Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 525 Causley St.
\n\tRichards Landing Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 1180 Richards St.
\n\tSault Area Hospital \u2013 750 Great Northern Rd., Sault Ste. Marie
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Access to services for non-emergent health advice or information is available by contacting Health811 by calling 811<\/a>. Toll free TTY line: 1-866-797-007<\/a>. Or start a live chat with an advisor online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For same day virtual access to a Nurse Practitioner through the North East Virtual Care Clinic for patients who have minor health issues and do not have a primary care provider or access to one in a timely manner visit: https:\/\/nevirtualcare.ca\/ or contact 1-888-684-1999<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emergency department will be closed from 8 a.m. Monday until 8 p.m. Tuesday A 24-hour closure of\u00a0the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-272911","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272911","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=272911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}