{"id":821211,"date":"2026-07-23T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821211\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:57:18","slug":"new-emergency-room-at-health-sciences-opening-early-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821211\/","title":{"rendered":"New Emergency Room at Health Sciences Opening Early August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/emergency-room-er-hospital-nlhs-waiting-room-health-1.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"New Emergency Room at Health Sciences Opening Early August\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>NL Health Services says the expanded emergency department at the Health Sciences Centre will officially open on August 8.<\/p>\n<p>The move shifts most of the emergency department into a new wing of the hospital, which is nearly three times the size of the old ER.<\/p>\n<p>The main entrance and primary waiting area will shift to the right of the current doors, featuring a more modern space.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say it will be among several new waiting areas, designed to \u201ckeep patients moving\u201d through the ER, with \u201csmaller pockets of waiting rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/emergency-clinic-hospital-nlhs-exam-room-health.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305018\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/emergency-clinic-hospital-nlhs-exam-room-health.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-305018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The expansion also features a 26-bed clinical assessment unit and several new trauma bays.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a new, fully covered ambulance bay connecting to the new wing is set to open next week.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the old part of the hospital (and the Tim Hortons), will not be available from the new ER for nearly a year while additional renovations are done.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) NL Health Services says the expanded emergency department at the Health Sciences Centre will officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,41,39,42,40,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-821211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821211","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=821211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}