The shutdown is scheduled to begin on Boxing Day at 8 a.m. and run until 6 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n
The North Shore Health Network’s Thessalon site is facing a closure of its emergency department later this week due to physician shortages.<\/p>\n
The closure is scheduled to begin on Friday morning at 8 a.m. and run until 6 p.m. on Sunday.<\/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 North Shore Health Network (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 1-866-797-007, or by starting 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 here<\/a> or call 1-888-684-1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shutdown is scheduled to begin on Boxing Day at 8 a.m. and run until 6 p.m. Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,157045],"class_list":["post-366404","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-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366404","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=366404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}