Temporary ER closures Monday, Tuesday at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool

By Rick Conrad.
 Date: Jan. 12th, 2024 - 5:16 PM
Sign points to hospital emergency room entrance

Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson

By Rick Conrad

The emergency department at the Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed for parts of next Monday and Tuesday.

The ER will close Jan. 15 at 1:30 p.m. and reopen Jan. 16 at 8 a.m. It will close again at 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 16 and reopen Wed., Jan. 17 at 8 a.m.

Nova Scotia Health gave no reason for the temporary closure.

The government’s annual emergency department accountability report, released in December, showed that the emergency department at Queens General was closed for about 50 per cent of the time in the period from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. It was closed for a total of 4,374.5 hours and open for 4,385.5 hours.

The Queens General Hospital has added staff in the past year to help keep the department open more often.

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