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Routine IT maintenance on Wednesday, December 17 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.

Service Statuses, Closures, and Cancellations

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11 Service Statuses, Closures, and Cancellations

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. 

Disruption
(Liverpool, NS)

Emergency Department

Queens General Hospital emergency department will close early at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 17 and re-open on Thursday, Dec. 18 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
(Shelburne, NS)

Emergency Department

Roseway Hospital emergency department is closed Monday, Dec. 15 and Tuesday, Dec. 16. It re-opens Wednesday, Dec. 17 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

Urgent Treatment Centres

The Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre in Tatamagouche is closed Monday, Dec. 15. 

Virtual urgent care appointments may be available onsite even when the urgent treatment centre is closed. For more information call 902-657-2385 during hours of operation. 

Disruption

Emergency Department

Fishermen's Memorial Hospital emergency department will be open from 7:30 a.m. until 12 p.m.  (noon) on Monday, Dec. 15 and re-open at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16.

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

North Cumberland Health Care Centre's Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) in Pugwash is closed Monday, Dec. 15. 

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

Disruption
(Middleton, NS)

Emergency Department

Soldiers memorial Hospital emergency department is closed Tuesday, December 16, and will re-open Wednesday, December 17 at 7:30 a.m.

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

Disruption

Emergency Department

Digby General Hospital emergency department is closed from 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, December 16, and is closed Wednesday, Dec. 17, Thursday, Dec. 18 and Friday, Dec. 19.

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

Disruption
(Annapolis Royal, NS)

Urgent Treatment Centres

Annapolis Urgent Treatment Centre is open on December 24, until 12 noon. 

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. 

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