The timeline has been set for the closing of emergency rooms within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA)
Victoria General’s ‘ER’ will be closed by October and transformed into an urgent care centre.
The Misericordia Urgent Care Centre will also be closed in October. It’s facility will be turned into a Community IV Clinic.
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Seven Oaks emergency room will be shut down in spring of 2018 and converted into an Urgent Care Centre.
Concordia Hospital will lose it’s emergency room in the spring as well but there are no plans to replace it with an urgent care facility.
The move to close the emergency rooms and convert some of them to urgent care centres is a result of the provincial government’s order to cut $83 million from the WRHA’s annual budget.
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Last week the WRHA implemented a 15% cut to it’s management team putting 132 people out of work.
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