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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.

Emergency Department

Emergency health care is a part of a network of health services that work together as a single system supported by our provincial 911 emergency health services (EHS) response system.

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Service Statuses

Disruption

Emergency Department

Fishermen's Memorial Hospital emergency department is OPEN from 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon on Monday, December 15 (closed at 12 noon and re-opens 7:30 a.m. the 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

Emergency Department

North Cumberland Health Care Centre's Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) in Pugwash is closed Saturday, Dec. 13 and Sunday, Dec. 14. Virtual urgent care will be available onsite daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. even when the CEC is closed. 

Disruption
(Shelburne, NS)

Emergency Department

Digby General Hospital emergency department is closed from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, December 14. 

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 at 3 p.m. Sunday, December 14 and is closed Monday, Dec. 15. 

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

Disruption
(Liverpool, NS)

Emergency Department

Queens General Hospital emergency department is closed at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning, December 12 and will be closed as usual Saturday and Sunday. It re-opens Monday, December 15 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. 

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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