Tag: Walkerton

More emergency room closures in Chesley, Walkerton

Chesley hospital’s emergency department will be closed tonight, Sunday and Monday night, from 5 p.m. until 7 the next morning due to staff shortages. Walkerton hospital’s emergency department will close Monday at 8 p.m. and re-open at 7 the next morning. Both South Bruce Grey Health Centre hospitals have been forced to close “due to […]

News provides ‘immense opportunity’ to build hospice in Walkerton

Saugeen Hospice chairman Carl Kuhnke said his organization’s new charitable status and other news is all favourable for building a new hospice in Walkerton, which will offer free end-of-life care. Residential Hospice Grey Bruce, which runs Chapman House hospice in Owen Sound, was originally going to build a satellite hospice serving southern Grey-Bruce. But about […]

ER’s in Walkerton, Chesley to resume 24-hour service

Walkerton’s emergency department will resume 24-hour coverage May 9 and there’s a plan to expand Chesley’s emergency department to 24-hour service starting June 15. In addition, on May 9 the remaining four acute-care beds will be reopened in Chesley hospital, bringing the total to back eight, and it will return to having 10 alternative-care beds […]

West Grey man gets five years in farm tractor death case

Ronald Oscar Seifried, 60, of West Grey was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain because he drove a farm tractor over his one-time friend. Superior Court Justice Bruce Durno summarized the facts, the victim impacts and walked through a lengthy legal analysis to arrive at […]