Saskatoon City Hospital increases hours for emergency department

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Saskatchewan

The Saskatoon City Hospital's exigency country volition present beryllium unfastened from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. The determination follows respective months of reduced hours owed to debased staffing levels.

The exigency country volition present beryllium unfastened from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day

Chris Edwards · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 2:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

An outdoor changeable of a hospital, with cars parked astatine the borderline of the sidewalk and flags waving outside.

The Saskatoon City Hospital is increasing the hours of cognition for its exigency section from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The caller docket begins June 29. It follows respective months of reduced hours astatine the exigency department, which was lone operational from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The infirmary says the hours person expanded due to the fact that the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has made advancement successful stabilizing doc staffing, and is present taking a "phased approach" to resuming full-time hours.

The instauration of 109 caller acute attraction beds astatine the infirmary is besides inactive underway. The initiative, funded by an SHA infusion of $15 million, began successful March 2025 and is expected to instrumentality 12 to 16 months.

Understaffing has been a persistent issue at Saskatoon hospitals. On New Year's Eve 2024, the exigency section temporarily reduced its hours to conscionable 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., saying immoderate of its doctors were sick.

In May 2025, exigency country patients astatine the Royal University Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital were forced to beryllium treated successful hallways and waiting rooms owed to deficiency of disposable space.

Alongside the accrued hours astatine the Saskatoon City Hospital, the exigency departments astatine the Royal University Hospital and St Paul's Hospital stay unfastened to the nationalist 24 hours a day, seven days a week.