{"id":562534,"date":"2026-03-26T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562534\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:51:08","slug":"temporary-closure-of-urgent-care-centre-in-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562534\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary closure of Urgent Care Centre in St. John&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t    \t\t\t<img width=\"740\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-10-13_09-49-00.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail_1920 size-thumbnail_1920 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/2026\/03\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMarch 26th, 2026<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is advising the public that the Urgent Care Centre, located on Stavanger Drive in St. John\u2019s, will be temporarily closed:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.\u00a0Individuals with booked appointments during this time are being contacted directly to reschedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Urgent Care Centre will re-open for walk-in services on Thursday from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For more information about urgent care, including how to book appointments at the Urgent Care Centre (St. John\u2019s), please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nlhealthservices.ca\/servicelisting\/urgent-care\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nlhealthservices.ca\/servicelisting\/urgent-care\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case of emergency:\u00a0Patients with a medical emergency who require an ambulance should call 911. Those who feel they have a serious or urgent medical problem should proceed to the nearest open emergency. If you are unsure if you should go to the emergency department, please call the 811 HealthLine or\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/nlhealthservices.ca\/servicelisting\/emergency-services\/#facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other information:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>811 HealthLine is available 24\/7 to provide:\u00a0<br \/>\u2013 medical advice (including virtual nurse practitioner appointments);\u00a0<br \/>\u2013 health information; and\u00a0<br \/>\u2013 support in a mental health crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.811healthline.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.811healthline.ca\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virtual Primary Care is available to those who do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner through video or phone call appointments. For more information, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcarenl.ca\/virtual-primary-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/virtualcarenl.ca\/virtual-primary-care\/<\/a>.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NL Health Services thanks the public for their understanding as we continue to focus on providing safe and quality care for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health, News March 26th, 2026 Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is advising the public that the Urgent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[217125,49,48,84,80322,209244,6115,14119],"class_list":["post-562534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-217125","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medical-advice","tag-nl-health-services","tag-st-johns","tag-urgent-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562534","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=562534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}