(UPDATE) Hudson’s Hope Health Centre closure extended to next week

Update, April 2nd, 2:45 p.m.: The story was updated to reflect changes to Northern Health information about when the centre would reopen.

HUDSON’S HOPE, B.C. — The closure of the health centre in Hudson’s Hope has been extended until next week. 

According to Northern Health’s Emergency Department status page, the centre is closed today, April 2nd, and is scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, April 7th at 8.30 a.m. after the Easter weekend on Friday, April 3rd and Monday, April 6th.

The centre was previously closed from February 24th to 27th and on March 6th, March 10th, March 13th, March 20th, March 23rd, March 27th, March 30th, March 31st and April 1st.    

Each working day since March 27th, Northern Health has notified the community in the morning that the health centre would be closed on that day. 

If it reopens as scheduled on Tuesday, it will have been closed for a full five working days in a row. 

The health authority had previously told Energeticcity.ca, in a written statement, that the Hudson’s Hope Health Centre was experiencing an interruption to its daytime and weekday emergency department services due to staffing shortages. 

During normal working hours, the centre is open from Monday to Friday from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

On the weekend and outside of normal working hours, residents in need of emergency care are urged by Northern Health to call 911 to connect to BC Emergency Health Services for transport to the nearest available hospital.