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Service Statuses

Disruption
(Shelburne, NS)

Emergency Department

Roseway Hospital emergency department in Shelburne will be closed from 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 12 until 12 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 16. 

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

Disruption
(Liverpool, NS)

Emergency Department

The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13 and reopen at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

Virtual urgent care is available from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, even when emergency department is closed. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

The Fishermen’s Memorial Hospital emergency department will be open from 7:30 a.m. until noon on the following days:

  • Monday, Jan. 12
  • Tuesday, Jan. 13
  • Wednesday, Jan. 14
  • Thursday, Jan. 15

It will reopen at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 16.

Virtual urgent care is available daily from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m., even when emergency department is closed.

Disruption

Emergency Department

Digby General Hospital emergency department will be closed Monday, Jan. 12 and Tuesday, Jan. 13. It will re-open on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 8 a.m. 

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

Disruption
(Evanston, NS)

Emergency Department

Strait Richmond Hospital emergency department will be closed on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 7 a.m. and reopen on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 8 a.m. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

North Cumberland Health Care Centre's Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) in Pugwash is temporarily closed and will reopen Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 8 a.m. 

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

Disruption

Emergency Department

Eastern Memorial Hospital emergency department will be closed until Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 12 p.m. 

Virtual urgent care is available Monday and Tuesday, 8 a.m.-6:45 p.m.; Wednesday, 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Thursday to Sunday, 8 a.m.-6:45 p.m. 

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. 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

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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