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Routine IT maintenance on Wednesday, February 18 will cause service interruptions between midnight and 6:00am affecting the YourHealthNS app and on-line appointment booking including COVID-19 testing, blood collection, X-Ray, EKG and the Need a Family Practice Registry.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Emergency Department

Emergency health care is a part of a network of health services that work together as a single system supported by our provincial 911 emergency health services (EHS) response system.

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Service Statuses

Disruption
(Evanston, NS)

Emergency Department

Strait Richmond Hospital emergency department will close at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18 and reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 23. 

Virtual urgent care will be available on site from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18, Thursday, Feb. 19 and Friday, Feb. 20. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

Eastern Memorial Hospital emergency department will close at 9 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 16 and reopen at 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 12. 

Virtual urgent care is available onsite Mon. and Tues., 8 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.; Wed., 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Thurs. to Sun., 8 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. Hours subject to change.

Disruption
(Shelburne, NS)

Emergency Department

Roseway Hospital emergency department will close at 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 16 and reopen at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17.

Virtual Urgent Care is open every day from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., even when the emergency department is closed

Disruption

Emergency Department

North Cumberland Health Care Centre's Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) in Pugwash is temporarily closed Tuesday, Feb. 17 to Monday, Feb. 23. 

Virtual urgent care will be available onsite daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. even when the CEC is closed. 

Advisory
(Glace Bay, NS)

Emergency Department

Virtual urgent care is available in the emergency department at Glace Bay Hospital on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

The All Saints Springhill Hospital Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) is temporarily closed. 

Virtual urgent care will be available onsite daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. even when the CEC is closed. 

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