{"id":360078,"date":"2025-12-21T17:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:03:06","slug":"thessalon-emergency-department-has-a-closure-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360078\/","title":{"rendered":"Thessalon emergency department has a closure coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will on Monday morning and reopen at 8 a.m. on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>NEWS RELEASE<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNORTH SHORE HEALTH NETWORK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n*****************************\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe North Shore Health Network (NSHN) is informing the community of upcoming temporary closures of the Emergency Department at the following locations due to physician shortages:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThessalon Site: From 8\u00a0a.m. on Monday, Dec.\u00a022 and reopening at 8\u00a0a.m. on Tuesday, Dec.\u00a023.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should call 9-1-1. Ambulances will be re-routed to one of the following closest Emergency Departments to the Thessalon Site:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tBlind River Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 525 Causley St., Blind River&#13;<br \/>\n\tRichards Landing Site \u2013 North Shore Health Network \u2013 1180 Richards St., Richards Landing&#13;<br \/>\n\tSault Area Hospital \u2013 750 Great Northern Rd., Sault Ste. Marie&#13;<\/p>\n<p>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 at: <a href=\"https:\/\/healthconnectontario.health.gov.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/healthconnectontario.health.gov.on.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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: <a href=\"https:\/\/nevirtualcare.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/nevirtualcare.ca\/<\/a>\u00a0or contact 1-888-684-1999 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>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. For further information please visit our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nshn.care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.nshn.care<\/a> or via Facebook \u201cNorth Shore Health Network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*****************************<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will on Monday morning and reopen at 8 a.m. on Tuesday NEWS RELEASE&#13; NORTH SHORE HEALTH NETWORK&#13;&hellip;\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],"class_list":{"0":"post-360078","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\/360078","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=360078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360078\/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=360078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}