A hospital in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley is shutting its emergency division throughout in a single day hours for greater than per week as a consequence of staffing challenges.
Fraser Well being says in a launch that Mission Memorial Hospital’s emergency division will function from 8 a.m. to six p.m. from Dec. 29 to Jan. 6 to replicate what it says are “systemic pressures being skilled throughout Canada.”
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Throughout that point, the hospital could have emergency-trained nurses to evaluate walk-in sufferers and supply fundamental care, in addition to redirect them to a neighbouring hospital if their wants are extra pressing.
Mission Memorial Hospital web site medical director Dr. Paul Theron says in an announcement that the momentary closure is to “allow constant and plannable hours” whereas enabling the hospital to “align providers with obtainable staffing and keep affected person security.”
Theron additionally says the hospital is working with the provincial Ministry of Well being “to stabilize longer-term staffing.”
Fraser Well being introduced earlier this month that 4 hospitals within the B.C. Inside — three of which have had periodic emergency-department closures as a consequence of staffing shortages — are beginning a pilot program the place emergency-care sufferers could also be seen nearly by an off-site physician.
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