Rumors that the 5th floor at Flin Flon General Hospital is being closed are not accurate. Communications Coordinator for the Northern Health Region Twyla Storey explains what they have noticed in the past few months is that the bed utilization has been out of sync for a number of months and now they’re taking steps to correct that and they’re doing that by transitioning patients and staff from the 5th floor to the 3rd floor and in addition to that they’ve also identified an opportunity to achieve some efficiencies which are expected to better balance the work load amongst nursing staff on the units and thereby enhancing their patient care in the hospital.
Storey adds the 5th floor is not closed as they continue to provide day surgeries and those patients are admitted to the 5th floor.
