{"id":38035,"date":"2025-07-04T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38035\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:21:07","slug":"explore-the-emergency-room-closures-in-your-area-with-our-interactive-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38035\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the emergency room closures in your area with our interactive map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">This project aims to document every instance in which a hospital emergency department (ER) in Canada closed its doors \u2013 temporarily or permanently \u2013 since 2019. For each closure, The Globe and Mail captured the ER\u2019s name, start and end times, and the reason for the disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Explore the interactive map below to browse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-secret-canada-emergency-rooms-closures-hospitals\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-secret-canada-emergency-rooms-closures-hospitals\/\">ER closures across Canada<\/a>, as compiled by The Globe and Mail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The analysis focuses exclusively on emergency departments. It does not include closures or service interruptions at walk-in clinics, urgent care centres or community health centres. To compile a complete list, The Globe asked each province and territory for a list of all ERs under their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">If an ER was permanently closed or converted to a clinic, its closure hours were no longer counted beyond that point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Closures were classified into three categories:<\/p>\n<p>Temporary closures:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">These are unplanned, one-off disruptions. An ER is considered temporarily closed if it shuts down with little advance notice and the closure<b> <\/b>does not follow a recurring schedule. <\/p>\n<p>Scheduled closures:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Recurring reductions in service hours (e.g., overnight or weekend closures) that persisted for at least two consecutive months. Short-term reductions \u2013 such as during holidays \u2013 were still considered temporary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Importantly, scheduled closures that began before 2019, the starting point of this project, are not included in this analysis. This is to avoid attributing long-standing schedules as new disruptions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In some jurisdictions, the data did not distinguish between scheduled and temporary closures. In such cases, all disruptions were grouped under a general \u201cER closures\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>Service disruptions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">These occur when an ER remains physically open but is unable to provide full emergency services. Common examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"c-article-body__li text-pr-7\">No physician on site;<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-body__li text-pr-7\">A virtual doctor replacing an in-person physician;<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-body__li text-pr-7\">Patients can only be triaged or stabilized by nurses before being transferred to another ER;<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-body__li text-pr-7\">ERs are limiting service to critical or resuscitation-only cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Some records lacked specific start or end times. In those cases, The Globe imputed missing values using the average duration of similar disruptions at the same ER. This approach was used in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"c-article-body__li text-pr-7\">Newfoundland and Labrador (3.6 per cent of records)<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-body__li text-pr-7\">Interlake-Eastern Health in Manitoba (6.4 per cent of records)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Health authorities in the territories reported no closures of service disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This project aims to document every instance in which a hospital emergency department (ER) in Canada closed its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8837,30785,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-38035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-appwebview","9":"tag-aud0url","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114794940833270901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}