{"id":4050,"date":"2023-12-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2023-12-24T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T04:38:17","slug":"hhs-closes-urgent-care-for-two-days-amid-staff-shortages-congestion-at-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/hhs-closes-urgent-care-for-two-days-amid-staff-shortages-congestion-at-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS closes urgent care for two days amid staff shortages, congestion at hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing shortages will close a Hamilton urgent care centre for two days at the same time city emergency departments are becoming increasingly congested with flu, COVID-19 and RSV patients.<\/p>\n<p>With just 13&nbsp;per cent of Hamiltonians getting a COVID shot in the past six months, local hospitals are bracing for the viral surge to continue climbing over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hospitals are congested,\u201d said Dr.&nbsp;Kuldeep Sidhu, chief of emergency medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). \u201cThe emergency departments are full.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overcrowding has led to kids being cared for in hallways at McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing shortages will close a Hamilton urgent care centre for two days at the same time city emergency departments are becoming increasingly congested with flu, COVID-19 and RSV patients.<\/p>\n<p>With just 13&nbsp;per cent of Hamiltonians getting a COVID shot in the past six months, local hospitals are bracing for the viral surge to continue climbing over the holidays.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/hhs-closes-urgent-care-for-two-days-amid-staff-shortages-congestion-at-hospitals\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HHS closes urgent care for two days amid staff shortages, congestion at hospitals<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,770,406,779,778,777,23,77,776,119,14,769,320,15],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-emergency-room-closures","tag-hamilton","tag-hamilton-general","tag-hamilton-health-sciences","tag-hamilton-region","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-mcmaster-childrens-hospital","tag-ontario","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-staffing-shortages","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}