The North Shore Health Network has announced that the Emergency Department at its Thessalon site will be closed from Wednesday morning through Thursday morning<\/p>\n
The Thessalon Emergency Department will be closed tomorrow due to physician shortages, the North Shore Health Network said in a news release.<\/p>\n
The closure will take place from 8 a.m. on Wednesday Dec. 3 to 8 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4.<\/p>\n
However, nurse practitioner will be available to provide timely care for urgent health concerns from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should call 9-1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ambulances will be re-routed to one of the following closest Emergency Departments to the Thessalon Site:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBlind River Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 525 Causley St., Blind River
\n\tRichards Landing Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 1180 Richards St., Richards Landing\u00a0
\n\tSault Area Hospital \u2013 750 Great Northern Rd., Sault Ste. Marie\u00a0
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Access to services for non-emergent health advice or information is available by contacting Health811 by calling 8-1-1, the toll free TTY line at 1-866-797-007, or via live chat with an advisor online<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 can visit the website<\/a> or call 1-888-684-1999<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Shore Health Network has announced that the Emergency Department at its Thessalon site will be closed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,142788],"class_list":{"0":"post-322144","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-shortagethessalon-emergency-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322144","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=322144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}