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Concordia Hospital ER closure to be reviewed

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WATCH: Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen said Thursday a consultant has been given two weeks to report back regarding a timeline for the closure of Concordia ER – May 2, 2019

The Manitoba government appears set to delay, and possibly alter, its planned closure of a hospital emergency room in Winnipeg.

Health Minister Cameron Friesen says plans to close the ER at Concordia Hospital and move some of the hospital’s services to other facilities are getting a second look.

Friesen says David Peachey, the consultant who came up with the government’s health-care reforms, is being brought back for a quality-assurance review and is to report back in two weeks.

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Friesen says he recently found out that plans for some of the replacement services at Concordia are not ready.

The Concordia emergency room was set to close next month.

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Friesen will not say when that might now happen and added there is a remote possibility the emergency room will stay open permanently.

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