8:40 p.m. update<\/p>\n
The North Shore Health Network has adjusted the hours of the closure for the emergency department at the Thessalon site.<\/p>\n
The closure will still begin at 10 p.m. Thursday, but will now run until 8 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
Original story<\/p>\n
The emergency department at the North Shore Health Network’s Thessalon site will be closed Thursday night and all day Friday.<\/p>\n
Beginning at 10 p.m. tomorrow\u00a0night, the closure is expected to last until\u00a0Saturday\u00a0at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n
Anyone needing immediate medical attention should call 911 and ambulances will be re-routed to the closest emergency departments to the Thessalon site, which are:<\/p>\n
\n\tBlind River site of the\u00a0North Shore Health Network\u00a0(525 Causley St., Blind River, Ont.)
\n\tRichards Landing Site of the North Shore Health Network (1180 Richards St., Richards Landing, Ont.)
\n\tSault Area Hospital (750 Great Northern Rd., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.)
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Access to services for non-emergency health advice or information is available by contacting Health811 by calling 8-1-1, using the toll free TTY line at\u00a01-866-797-007, or by\u00a0starting a live chat with an advisor online<\/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, click\u00a0here<\/a> or call\u00a01-888-684-1999<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8:40 p.m. update The North Shore Health Network has adjusted the hours of the closure for the emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,152886],"class_list":["post-352405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-north-shore-health-networkthessalon-emergency-departmentemergency-department-closure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352405","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=352405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352405\/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=352405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}