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News – 2022

2022

  • New Wellness & Treatment Centre Community Education Drop-in Session
    December 6, 2022
    Grey Bruce Health Services is excited to be opening a new Wellness & Treatment Centre in late 2023 dedicated to supporting individuals with mental health and addictions needs through voluntary tre...
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  • Owen Sound Hospital Eliminates Outpatient Lab Services
    December 2, 2022
    Throughout the last several months, Health Human Resource challenges have affected hospitals province-wide. GBHS has felt these pressures across many of our hospitals and services. The lab at our Owen...
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  • Wiarton Hospital Emergency Department Renovations
    October 31, 2022
    Grey Bruce Health Services will begin renovations to the Wiarton Emergency Department starting November 1, 2022.  The purpose of the renovations are to improve patient flow through the Emergency ...
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  • Site Selected for New GBHS Wellness and Treatment Centre
    September 19, 2022
    GBHS is pleased to announce that a location has been selected for a new wellness and treatment centre to support individuals with addictions and mental health issues.  The new centre will be loca...
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  • Virtual Urgent Care Expanding to Six Days a Week
    September 14, 2022
    After a very successful summer, the Virtual Urgent Care program operated through Brightshores will be increasing from four days a week to six days to support patients in our communities. Virtual urgen...
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  • GBHS Hospitals Impacted by Internal and External Capacity Issues
    September 1, 2022
    Like hospitals across the province, GBHS is experiencing an unprecedented demand on services. The volume and acuity of patients coming to all six GBHS Emergency Departments, staff vacancies and a lack...
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  • GBHS Parking Fees to Increase
    August 15, 2022
    Starting on September 1, 2022, the fees for patient and visitor parking at GBHS Meaford, Wiarton and Owen Sound hospitals are increasing for the first time in several years. This increase will help of...
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  • Public Reminded that Emergency Departments are for Urgent Health Issues
    July 20, 2022
    GBHS is seeing an increase in wait times at Emergency Departments across its six hospitals, and many patients are arriving with minor health concerns that do not require urgent care. To reduce wait ti...
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  • GBHS Celebrates Year-End Accomplishments
    June 23, 2022
    The Grey Bruce Health Services Board of Directors held their Annual General Meeting last evening and celebrated many accomplishments from the past fiscal year. The Board also approved a new Strategic ...
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  • GBHS Expands Hours of Urgent Virtual Care Program
    June 10, 2022
    Grey Bruce Health Services is pleased to expand the Urgent Virtual Care program so that more people can visit a physician by phone from the comfort of their own home. Virtual visits are now available ...
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  • GBHS Gradually Easing Visitor Restrictions
    June 6, 2022
    Starting Wednesday, June 8, Brightshores is easing visitor restrictions at all six hospitals in keeping with the declining cases of COVID-19 and the changes being implemented at hospital corporations ...
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  • Human Resource Pressures Facing GBHS Emergency Departments
    May 19, 2022
    Many hospitals across Ontario are experiencing staffing shortages, and the availability of  emergency department physicians is causing concern locally at GBHS hospitals.   All six GBHS hospi...
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  • GBHS Gradually Increasing Number of Visitors Permitted in Hospital
    March 4, 2022
    Starting Monday, March 7, GBHS is easing visitor restrictions and expanding visiting hours at all six hospitals. As of next week, two visitors per day will be permitted for most situations, and it no ...
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  • COVID-19 Assessment Centres in Southampton and Lion’s Head Closing
    February 25, 2022
    Due to provincial restrictions on who is eligible for COVID-19 testing and declining local transmission of the virus, the GBHS Assessment Centres in Southampton and Lion’s Head Hospitals are closing a...
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  • GBHS Offering Virtual Appointments for Urgent Care
    February 25, 2022
    Grey Bruce Health Services is excited to announce the launch of a pilot project to offer virtual urgent care appointments. Starting on March 2, GBHS urgent care virtual visits will allow qualifying pa...
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  • GBHS Now Offering Clinical Assessments at Owen Sound COVID-19 Assessment Centre
    February 17, 2022
    To help conserve needed capacity for people requiring emergency services, at the request of Ontario Health, GBHS has expanded services at the Owen Sound COVID-19 Assessment Centre to include clinical ...
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  • GBHS Gradually Resuming Elective Surgeries
    February 14, 2022
    The provincial government is easing restrictions on non-urgent surgeries and procedures, allowing Grey Bruce Health Services to begin a gradual re-opening of our Operating Rooms.  Elective proced...
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  • Number of Visitors Permitted in Hospital Expands
    February 9, 2022
    Starting tomorrow, February 10, GBHS will permit two visitors per inpatient at all GBHS hospitals. Outpatients attending most types of appointments must still come alone due to space limitations, unle...
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  • New Hospital in Markdale Gets Approved for Additional Beds
    January 20, 2022
    The new GBHS hospital under construction in Markdale is expanding, even before it opens. The new hospital will now have eight inpatient beds, as opposed to the five-bed model the Ministry of Health ap...
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  • Sauble Medical Clinic Donates $1 Million to GBHS Foundations
    January 19, 2022
    Today GBHS Foundations accepted a very generous donation from Sauble Area Medical Clinic Incorporated. The not-for-profit group recently sold their building to the Town of South Bruce Peninsula and is...
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  • GBHS Seeing High Number of COVID Admissions
    January 18, 2022
    Grey Bruce Health Services has 16 COVID-positive patients in hospital, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. There are 10 patients admitted with COVID who are being treated for their sym...
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  • GBHS Permitting Essential Visitors Only
    January 10, 2022
    For the safety of our patients, staff, physicians and volunteers, GBHS is implementing further changes to our Visitor’s Policy. Effective Tuesday January 11, Brightshores will be moving to essential v...
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  • GBHS Implements Changes in Face of Rising Local Cases of COVID-19
    January 4, 2022
      Provincial directives and increasing cases of COVID-19 locally and across the province are having an impact on some services at Grey Bruce Health Services. All Elective Surgeries Postponed Yest...
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