Emergency Services Crisis Response

10/30/2024

Liberal Leader Zach Churchill in Middleton this morning, Oct. 30, 2024:

04/07/2023

All area municipalities supported this letter…

03/30/2023

News about Soldiers Memorial operating hours for the month of April...

03/29/2023

Questions and answers about both Soldiers Memorial in Middleton and the Annapolis Community Health Centre in Annapolis Royal...

03/10/2023

Another small step in the right direction to make it easier to attract more doctors to our region. Hopefully, changes like these will help with physician recruitment that would allow the Emergency Department at Soldiers Memorial to return to 24/7 service and the Urgent Treatment Centre in Annapolis Royal to expand its hours of operation.

While extra certification is being waived, it does not mean that those doctors do not have their credentials scrutinized before being allowed to practice in Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia is the first province in the country to allow American board-certified physicians to practice in Nova Scotia without extra certification.

Full licences will also be available to international subspecialists without extra certification, including physicians practising internal medicine.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons says it is making every effort to welcome more physicians who are competent to deliver safe care to Nova Scotians.

03/06/2023

Just a heads up that even though the Emergency Department at Soldiers Memorial is closed most of March, there will still be access to the Mobile Primary Care Clinics this month.

These clinics are helpful for those currently without primary healthcare providers, but they do not make up in any way for us not having access to emergency department services anywhere in Annapolis County.

03/03/2023

Extremely unfortunate news that the Soldiers Memorial Hospital Emergency Department will be closed until March 15th. This underscores why it is so critically important that we don't let the pressure off on our goal of ensuring 24/7 emergency department services at Soldiers Memorial Hospital.

Please note that the Digby Emergency Department is also currently closed, expecting to reopen tomorrow, March 4th.

02/21/2023

This just in today. Emergency Department closed tomorrow and Wednesday.

02/10/2023

Soldiers ED closed today, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Digby hospital is closed Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

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02/08/2023

Signatures are still being collected on the petition being done by Annapolis MLA, Carman Kerr.

The petition asks, "We, the undersigned, request that this government develop a comprehensive, targeted plan to return the Emergency Department at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton to 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week service. We also request that they provide quarterly public information sessions in the community to update residents on the progress towards this objective and provide the opportunity for residents to ask questions and provide input."

We must let Government and NS Health know we are watching and we are not letting up on our demands - signing the petition helps accomplish that goal.

Locations to sign the petition include:
Carman Kerr's MLA office in Middleton
Bainton's/Mad Hatters in Annapolis Royal
Big Scoop Restaurant near Middleton
Double D in Granville Ferry
Goucher's Farm Market near Wilmot
Public Library Branches in Annapolis County
Smokey Quartz Emporium in Middleton
Spurr Brothers Market near Wilmot
Town Hall in Middleton

If you know of other locations that have the petition available for signing please mention them in the comments below and we'll add them to the list.

02/07/2023

Jason Malloy's reporting on one of the meetings held Feb. 6 regarding 24/7 emergency health care at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton. This comes a week after our successful rally in front of the hospital.

MIDDLETON, N.S. — Nova Scotia Health is committed to restoring emergency care in Middleton to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What officials can’t say ...

02/07/2023

From yesterday's public meeting about Soldier's Memorial Hospital:
Tanya Nixon, vice-president of operations for the western zone, said the large number of people in the area without a family doctor and a variety of other factors, including patient volume and proximity to regional hospitals, goes into the approach they're using in Middleton.

"There's a great deal of people in this community that are unattached and they need a ready access point," she said in an interview.

"The physicians in this area are committed to an emergency room and if we can augment from a recruitment perspective, that model makes the most sense to us."

Did you attend any of the three sessions offered? If you did, share your thoughts about the sessions in the comments.

Nova Scotia Health officials say recruitment efforts continue to try to restore full-time service to the emergency department at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton, N.S.