{"id":79866,"date":"2025-12-30T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=79866"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:35:12","slug":"physician-staffing-pressure-january-1st-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/physician-staffing-pressure-january-1st-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician Staffing Pressure January 1st, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>We will experience a staffing pressure for Physician services in the Emergency Department (ED) on January 1st, 2026.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Emergency Department will remain open; however, we ask that you visit the ED only if you have an emergency. We will be leaning on a local Physician to provide unscheduled coverage, therefore, please only visit the ER if you have an emergency.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If you are unsure whether you have an emergency, seek health-related advice from a Registered Nurse by calling Health Connect Ontario (formerly Telehealth Ontario) (24\/7) at 811.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In addition, patients who come to the hospital are prioritized based on their medical needs so you may experience longer wait times.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We thank you for your understanding and continued cooperation. If you have any questions or comments please email feedback@ldhc.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We will experience a staffing pressure for Physician services in the Emergency Department (ED) on January 1st, 2026. The Emergency Department will remain open; however, we ask that you visit the ED only if you have an emergency. We will be leaning on a local Physician to provide unscheduled coverage, therefore, please only visit the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 09:19:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79868,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866\/revisions\/79868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}