{"id":636990,"date":"2026-04-29T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:45:10","slug":"richards-landing-emergency-department-closing-for-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636990\/","title":{"rendered":"Richards Landing emergency department closing for 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emergency department at the North Shore Health Network\u2019s Richards Landing site will close this week because of physician shortages<\/p>\n<p>The emergency department at the North Shore Health Network&#8217;s Richards Landing site will be closed for 24 hours this week.<\/p>\n<p>The closure, due to physician shortages, will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday. The department will reopen\u00a0at 8 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulances will be rerouted to the closest emergency departments closes to the Richards Landing site, which are:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tNorth Shore Health Network Thessalon Site&#13;<br \/>\n\tSault Area Hospital&#13;<\/p>\n<p>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<p>You can also start a live chat with an advisor online at <a data-ga-action=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-category=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/healthconnectontario.health.gov.on.ca\/\" href=\"https:\/\/healthconnectontario.health.gov.on.ca\/?utm_source=elliotlaketoday.com&amp;utm_campaign=elliotlaketoday.com%3A%20outbound&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Health Connect Ontario.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emergency department at the North Shore Health Network\u2019s Richards Landing site will close this week because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,238072],"class_list":["post-636990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-north-shore-health-network-richards-landing-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636990","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=636990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}