{"id":6459,"date":"2024-01-17T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:01:42","slug":"emergency-department-at-queens-general-closed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/01\/17\/emergency-department-at-queens-general-closed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency department at Queens General closed again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed for certain hours this week. (Rick Conrad photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Rick Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n

The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed for the second time this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nova Scotia Health sent out a news release at noon on Wednesday. They gave no reason for the temporary closures.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ER closed Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. and will reopen Thursday at 8 a.m. It will close again later Thursday at 1:30 p.m. and reopen Friday at 8 a.m. It will remain open until Sunday at 5 a.m., when it will close until Monday at 8 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to numbers provided by Nova Scotia Health, temporary closures affected the Queens General emergency department for 13 days in November, 15 in December, and nine so far in January. Those were usually closures for part of the day, but some were full-day closures.<\/p>\n

The emergency department at South Shore Regional Hospital in Bridgewater remains open.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nova Scotia Health is telling patients to call 911 if they have a medical emergency. Patients of Queens Family Health can also access the same-day clinic for certain conditions by calling 902-354-3322.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mental Health and Addictions crisis line is available 24 hours a day at<\/span> 1-888-429-8167.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to Wednesday’s news update below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jan1724newsupdate.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rick Conrad The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed for the second time this week. Nova Scotia Health sent out a news release at noon on Wednesday. They gave no reason for the temporary closures. The ER closed Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. and will reopen Thursday at 8 a.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1113,1628,39,337],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-emergency-department","tag-er-closures","tag-liverpool","tag-queens-general-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6465,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}