Hospitals need temporary closures due to COVID-19-related absences, vacations, staff fatigue and burnout, in addition to nurse shortages said it is.
Montfort Hospital opened Monday at 7:30 am after a temporary overnight closure over the weekend. The emergency room was scheduled to reopen in a minute.
On Sunday, the hospital confirmed that it is sticking to the plan it announced Friday to only close the emergency department at 7:30 p.m. We will reopen the following morning for both Saturday and Sunday nights. The hospital said temporary closures were necessary due toCOVID-19-related absenteeism, vacations, staff fatigue and burnout, in addition to nurse shortages.
The emergency department was still accepting ambulances through the night.
Ottawa Hospital, which operates the General and Civic Campuses, sees long patient wait times in the emergency room over the weekend due to what is happening at other hospitals. I was prepared.
On Saturday, Ottawa Hospital said that with other hospitals in the area temporarily closed, "we could see higher-than-normal patient numbers and significantly longer wait times." Expensive," he tweeted.
The emergency department at Carlton Place & District Memorial Hospital was closed from 7:00 am Saturday to 7:00 am Sunday. The hospital cited a shortage of nurses as the reason for the temporary closure.
CHEO reported that hospitals were busier than usual at this time of year, but the phenomenon started before the weekend.
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