Doctor shortage shuts Thessalon emergency department — again

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Doctor shortage shuts Thessalon emergency department — again
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After just completing a 48-hour shutdown this morning, emergency department will be closed again on Monday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The emergency department in Thessalon just reopened this morning — and already another shutdown has been announced.

The network now says it's temporarily closing the town's emergency department again, this time on Monday May 29 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tim Vine, the health network's CEO, was a guest on this week's Inside the Village podcast. He explained how the situation got so dire, if there’s a reasonable cure in sight — and how he sleeps at night knowing that a community he serves has no emergency room for people to depend on.

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