{"id":87321,"date":"2026-10-16T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87321"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:18:23","slug":"ldhc-physician-staffing-pressure-october-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/ldhc-physician-staffing-pressure-october-16-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"LDHC &#8211; Physician Staffing Pressure October 16, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oct 16, 2026 at 13:15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LDHC-ER.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-87322\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LDHC-ER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>We are experiencing a staffing shortage in our physician group for the Emergency Department (ED) today October 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>As we work to get planned physician locum support in place, a local physician will balance their Scheduled Primary Care responsibilities as well as the Emergency Department needs.<\/p>\n<p>The Emergency Department is open; however, we ask that you visit the ED only if you have an emergency. Based on patient prioritization you may experience longer wait times.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unsure whether you have an emergency, seek health-related advice by calling Health Connect Ontario (24\/7) at 811.<\/p>\n<p>We thank you for your understanding and continued cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 16, 2026 at 13:15 We are experiencing a staffing shortage in our physician group for the Emergency Department (ED) today October 16, 2026. As we work to get planned physician locum support in place, a local physician will balance their Scheduled Primary Care responsibilities as well as the Emergency Department needs. The Emergency Department &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 18:12:58","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\/87321","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=87321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87323,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87321\/revisions\/87323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}