COVID-19 surge.St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) says their facility in the east end on King Street East near Centennial Parkway will temporarily reduce hours to between 4 p.m.
and 10 p.m. starting Tuesday to shift trained staff to work other parts of the network.“This measure is necessary to help maintain essential and critical services to our community during this difficult stage of the COVID pandemic,” Dr.
Greg Rutledge, deputy chief of staff said in a release on Monday. Hamilton’s West End Urgent Care Clinic to close, redeploy ‘urgently needed’ staff due to COVID-19 surge “Our urgent care team members have a unique set of skills needed to help address critical staffing shortages and high demand for care at our Charlton inpatient site.”Typically the centre opens at 8 a.m until 10 at night every day.Being moved out are a pair of emergency-trained physicians, nine nurses (part time and full time) and clerks who will now move to the Charlton campus emergency department or other parts of the system.It’s the second move from one of Hamilton’s major hospital networks to redeploy much need staff.
On Friday, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) said the West End Urgent Care Clinic on Main Street East at Macklin Street South will shutter for eight weeks starting Jan.