New urgent treatment centre opening soon in Tatamagouche
Centre to open at the Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital by mid-January
A new urgent treatment centre is set to open at the Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital in Tatamagouche, N.S., by mid-January.
In a press release, Nova Scotia Health said the centre "will provide care, by both booked and walk-in appointments, for people with unexpected, non-life-threatening health concerns that require same or next day treatment."
"The centre will be available to people with or without a family doctor or nurse practitioner."
Nova Scotia Health said the urgent treatment centre is different from an emergency department because it will not receive ambulances.
A public information session on the centre will be held Dec. 20 at the Grace Jollymore Joyce Arts Centre at 31 Creamery Road in Tatamagouche from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Registration is required to attend.
The opening of urgent treatment centres is part of the province's plan to improve the health-care system in Nova Scotia.
As of Dec. 1, 125,278 Nova Scotians are on the Need a Family Practice Registry. In the central zone, which includes Halifax, 53,100 people are in need of a primary health-care provider.
In September, the province announced the emergency department at the Victoria County Memorial Hospital in Baddeck, N.S., was being replaced with an urgent treatment centre. Another urgent treatment centre opened last year in Parrsboro, N.S.
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