The emergency department will be closed starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow<\/p>\n
There will be a closure of the emergency department in Thessalon this week due to physician shortages.<\/p>\n
The North Shore Health Network says the emergency room will shut down at 8 a.m.\u00a0on Tuesday, April 7.\u00a0It\u2019s not scheduled to reopen until 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 9.<\/p>\n
Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should still call 9-1-1. Ambulances will be re-routed.<\/p>\n
The closest Emergency Departments to the Thessalon Site are:<\/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
\n\tSault Area Hospital \u2013 750 Great Northern Rd., Sault Ste. Marie
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Non-emergency health advice or information is available by contacting Health811 by calling 8-1-1, or the toll free TTY line: 1-866-797-007.<\/p>\n
You can also start a live chat with an advisor online at Health Connect Ontario.<\/a><\/p>\n Same day virtual access to a nurse practitioner is also available through the North East Virtual Care Clinic. This is for patients who have minor health issues and do not have a primary care provider or access to one in a timely manner.<\/p>\n Visit the North East Region Virtual Care Clinic<\/a> or contact 1-888-684-1999<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emergency department will be closed starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow There will be a closure of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,226237],"class_list":["post-596205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-thessalon-hospitalthessalon-emergency-departmentthessalon-ed-closure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596205","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=596205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596205\/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=596205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}