COVID-19 pandemic it’s the development of the facility’s virtual care over the last four months.On Wednesday, St. Joe’s officially launched its newly developed virtual emergency care department, allowing those with urgent, non-life-threatening concerns to reach out to a physician if they are unable to see a doctor in person.
Hamilton-Niagara hospitals need time to clear backlog of non-essential surgeries “I think all of us have been confronted with the question of should I come to emerge, should I not?
I need to go to hospital for this?” said St. Joe’s chief of emergency medicine Dr. Greg Rutledge.The service offers dedicated virtual care Monday to Friday from 10 a.m.