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Service Statuses

Disruption

Emergency Department

Digby General Hospital emergency department is closed at 4 p.m. Sunday, December 7, and is closed Monday. It re-opens Tuesday, December 9 at 8 a.m. 

Virtual urgent care is available every day, 7 days a week, from 8am-7pm, even when the emergency department is temporarily closed. 

Disruption
(Evanston, NS)

Emergency Department

Strait Richmond Hospital emergency department will be closed on Friday, Dec. 5 at 7 a.m. and reopen on Monday, Dec. 8 at 8 a.m. 

 

Disruption

Emergency Department

Fishermen's Memorial Hospital emergency department is open 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday Dec. 4 and Friday Dec. 5 (closed at noon and re-opens 7:30 a.m. next day).

Virtual urgent care is available every day, 7 days a week, from 8am-7pm, even when the emergency department is temporarily closed. 

Disruption
(Shelburne, NS)

Emergency Department

Roseway Hospital emergency department is closed Thursday, December 4 and re-opens Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 a.m. 

Virtual urgent care is available every day, 7 days a week, from 8am-7pm, even when the emergency department is temporarily closed. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

Eastern Memorial Hospital emergency department is closed until Friday, Dec. 12 at 12 p.m. 

Virtual urgent care: Mon. & Tues., 8 am-6:45 pm; Wed., 8 am-2:30 pm; Thurs.-Sun., 8 am-6:45 pm. 

Urgent treatment clinic: Sat., Dec. 6 and Sun., Dec. 7, 9 am-5 pm. Call 902-366-3268 for same-day appt.

Advisory
(Middleton, NS)

Emergency Department

Soldiers Memorial Hospital emergency department is OPEN Saturday, December 6 from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It is open every Saturday in December. 

The emergency department is regularly OPEN Monday to Friday, 7:30a.m. to 1:30p.m. Virtual Urgent Care is open every day. Mon-Sat 8am-7pm and Sunday from 8am-3:30pm.

Advisory
(Glace Bay, NS)

Emergency Department

Virtual urgent care is available at Glace Bay Hospital on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. in the emergency department. Virtual urgent care is provided by onsite Nova Scotia Health staff and online care providers, like doctors, to treat patients with urgent, but non-life-threatening health matters, like coughs, colds, sprains, etc. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

All Saints Springhill Hospital's 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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