Peel Memorial Centre shuts down as result of ‘extreme capacity and staffing pressures’
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Posted January 10, 2022 10:35 pm.
The William Osler Health System, which serves Brampton and the northern portion of the western Toronto district of Etobicoke, is being forced to close down an urgent care centre to continue fighting COVID-19.
The health system says due to extreme staffing issues, the urgent care centre at the Peel Memorial Centre, located on Lynch Street, has to cease operations effective immediately.
Due to increasing volumes in our Emergency Departments, compounded by our extreme capacity and staffing pressures, we have made the difficult decision to keep the Urgent Care Centre at Peel Memorial temporarily closed until at least Feb 1.
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— William Osler Health System (@OslerHealth) January 10, 2022
It’s only a temporary closure, as they’re expecting to re-open on Feb. 1.
“This closure will help to direct the highly skilled staff and physicians to where demand is the greatest,” William Osler Health said.
The urgent care centres at their other two hospitals, Brampton Civic and Etobicoke General, will remain open. The hospital network insists you only travel to them if it is an emergency.
Elsewhere, Toronto’s fire chief says the city’s emergency and essential services have been operating with an average unplanned absence rate of 11.9 per cent since just before Christmas. Pegg confirmed on Monday that it jumped to 12.8 per cent yesterday amid the surging Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pegg said there were times over the weekend when more than 50 Toronto Paramedic Services ambulances were unavailable as they waited to transfer patients to the care of a hospital.
This comes as Ontario reports nearly 2,500 people are in hospital with COVID-19, and 438 patients are in the province’s ICU unit.