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The Lillooet band is coming up with a creative solution to emergency room closures. They are creating a team to respond to health-care emergencies. Darya Zagar reports.

The mayor of Merritt is raising the alarm about an ongoing health-care crisis in his community. It comes after he was sent documents by a whistleblower, indicating on-going staff shortages will force the closure of the ER at the Nicola Valley Hospital “dozens” of times between now and the end of the year. Grace Ke...

A temporary reduction in hours at the emergency department of the Sussex Health Centre has ben the reality now for 18 months. As candidates look to gain support in the riding ahead of this fall’s election, they say the hospital is one of the area’s top concerns. Silas Brown reports.

A Sussex, N.B. man who wasn’t treated at his local emergency room while having a heart attack is speaking out. As Silas Brown reports, he’s frustrated with the state of his local hospital, and considers it a key election issue.

B.C. continues to have a hard time keeping some of its emergency rooms open. Again this long weekend, a half dozen emergency rooms have had to close their doors at some point, because there aren’t enough staff to keep them open. It’s a vexing problem that the province says it’s working on, but as Darya...

Staffing shortages are being blamed for the closure of five hospital emergency rooms in British Columbia’s Interior over the Labour Day long weekend. As Neetu Garcha explains, advocates say the problem needs to be urgently remedied.

A conference of concerns. How nurses from the Okanagan say ER closures are a top issue. And the keys to an historic Kelowna home are now in the hands of the heritage society.

Virtual emergency rooms will be officially launched in rural communities across the province soon to prevent hospital closures. But critics say there is no way to replace in-person care, and some towns affected by constant ER closures don’t qualify because their populations are too large. Angela Jung reports.

It’s being billed as a partial solution to the small-town ER closures in recent months. The plan is to use a virtual doctor at Fraser Canyon Hospital in Hope to supplement the medical staff on site. But as Angela Jung reports, not everyone is sold on the idea.

It’s something communities across the province are getting used to: temporary emergency room closures. Staffing issues mean residents sometimes must travel for hours to receive emergency care. The province says it is working to reduce closures and as Richard Zussman reports, B.C. is not alone.

Every day, across large parts of the province, residents receive the message from their local health authority that their emergency room will be closed overnight. Fed up and concerned, one Mayor is calling for an internal audit of Interior Health, as his community has seen four ER closures this week. Angela Jung has more.

Four hospitals within Interior Health were forced to close their emergency rooms in recent days due to staffing shortages. As Angela Jung reports, some of the city’s mayors are voicing their frustrations.

Rural communities like Merritt are dealing with an ongoing crisis as staff shortages continue to force the closure of their hospital’s emergency rooms. Richard Zussman reports.

Smoked out in the Slocan valley. Hundreds of residents are under an evacuation order, and how weather is affecting firefighting efforts. Also, Merritt achieves a milestone in flood recovery restoring a vital link in the community after the floods of 2021. And a critical shortage of emergency care in Williams Lake. Fed up and concerned,...

The City of Merritt is urging residents to avoid all non-essential water use due to a failure of the main water pump station. As Alissa Thibault reports, it comes as the city deals with ER closures ahead of a large music festival.

Staffing shortages at White Rock’s Peace Arch Hospital have led to fears the ER could close over the long weekend. Fraser Health has said that will not happen, but as Julia Foy reports, there are still concerns over the possibility of future closures.

Merritt is seeking $90,000 from the BC government for costs related to temporary emergency room closures. Merritt Mayor Mike Goetz discusses the call for compensation.

A new U.S. study has found patient outcomes were better when they were treated by female doctors. Dr. Birinder Narang takes a closer look at the data that supports this research.

As we inch closer to spring, drought continues to loom in Alberta. While Edmonton saw a lot of snowfall this week, it will still not be enough to mitigate the risks. Dr. John Pomeroy, a University of Saskatchewan professor and Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, joined Global News at Noon to...

Communities in Nova Scotia are raising concern over more emergency room closures. Nearly half a dozen ERs are expected to be closed within the next two weeks. As Zack Power reports, the province says that alack of health-care professionals has created a strain.