Manitoba's health minister won't say whether the Concordia Hospital emergency room will be closed in June as scheduled.

City ambulances will begin routing high-need patients away from Concordia Hospital to other facilities as of Dec. 10. The ER will continue to to take walk-ins 24/7, for the time being.

The future of the Concordia Hospital ER became a little more clear Wednesday. The province said the facility will be converted to a Connected Care Clinic.