Devon General Hospital will resume on Sept. 7, Alberta Health Services announced on Friday.In April 2020, the emergency department stopped accepting patients in an effort to protect the long-term care residents from the threat of COVID-19 and transitioned 10 acute-care beds to long-term care beds in an effort to provide more capacity for that type of care in the Edmonton region.
Coronavirus: Emergency department at Devon hospital to reopen in phases beginning this month At 7 a.m. on Sept. 7, the emergency department will resume full, 24-hour operation.As of Sept.
20, the 10 acute-care beds that were transitioned into long-term care beds will be transitioned back to inpatient family medicine beds.In a news release, AHS said it remains.