Chesley’s ER closed for eight weeks due to nurse shortage

Chesley hospital’s emergency room is closed for eight weeks starting today due to a “critical shortage of nurses.” The rest of the hospital remains open, the hospital announced in a news release. Chesley’s ER is scheduled to reopen Dec. 2. Persistent nursing shortages have forced the emergency room to close multiple times this summer. The […]

Funds intended for hospice in Walkerton transferred to local group

A group in southern Grey-Bruce which formed to build a hospice in Walkerton has received a nearly $570,000 boost. The money was transferred by Grey-Bruce Hospice Inc., because it was collected to eventually build a satellite hospice in southern Grey-Bruce. When the Owen Sound-based organization turned to focus on its Owen Sound hospice, Chapman House, […]

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 […]