Temporary service and facility closure notices from Nova Scotia Health Authority (Updated @ 11:30 p.m. on March 26, 2020)

• All elective outpatient visits are cancelled. Individual services will contact patients whose appointments are proceeding. Dialysis, chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and mental health and addictions appointments will continue.
• All non-urgent diagnostic imaging appointments will be rescheduled and walk-in x-ray services will be closed.
• All same-day admission and elective surgical procedures are postponed. Cancer and urgent/emergency procedures will continue.
• Out-patient blood collection services will be reduced (i.e. reduction in hours, number of locations, many by appointment only).   You can find an up to date list of blood collection service disruptions here.
• All Mental Health and Addictions Program group-based therapies and group programming will be paused. Please see your geographic area below for more details. Urgent and non-urgent one-to-one outpatient clinics will continue. Patients will also have the choice to move their in-person sessions to take place over the phone, where appropriate, or through a secure video conferencing platform, where available.
• All Public Health offices are closed to drop-in visitors. Booked appointments will proceed. If you need to rebook an appointment due to illness or self-isolation, please call your local Public Health office.
• All out-patient Hearing and Speech NS clinics are closed until further notice
• All volunteer involvement/programs at NSHA facilites and services has been suspended until further notice
• NSHA’s Cancer Care Program is dedicated to maintaining cancer services to the greatest extent possible during the COVID 19 pandemic.
  Currently, all outpatient services in medical, radiation and gynecologic oncology, as well as hematology, including chemotherapy and radiation treatments, will be continuing to provide clinical services but minimizing patients coming to the hospital when safe and possible. Patients with appointments in medical, hematologic and gynecologic oncology may receive a telephone call from the cancer centre or clinic prior to any scheduled appointments advising if the appointment has been changed to a telephone or video appointment. All patients scheduled for radiation therapy will go ahead as planned.
  NSHA is working on a process to continue cancer surgeries, as possible. All scheduled cancer and non-cancer surgeries are being reviewed to ensure we are able to provide the best cancer surgery services possible within resource limitations due to COVID 19. Patients will be contacted if there are changes to their surgery dates.

If you have an emergency, please call 911 or visit the nearest emergency department. The Mental Health Crisis Line operates 24/7 at 1-888-429-8167.