{"id":53867,"date":"2025-04-25T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=53867"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:01:27","slug":"cobequid-community-health-centres-emergency-department-pilots-new-number-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=53867","title":{"rendered":"Cobequid Community Health Centre\u2019s emergency department pilots new number system\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;237&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;235&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> The Cobequid Community Health Centre is piloting a new program in the emergency department designed to enhance patient experience and reduce wait times through a number system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective today (April 23), anyone visiting the department takes a number, similar to a blood collection appointment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number will be called over the overhead speaker and displayed on a TV monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients will be triaged and registered based on their order in the queue.<strong> <\/strong>Those experiencing a life-threatening emergency will be prioritized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal is to streamline the triage and registration process and improve efficiency. Using numbers also offers privacy as patients&#8217; names will not be called out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSH is asking for your cooperation and understanding as they strive to improve the services for the Cobequid community.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;148&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;237&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;235&#8243;] LOWER SACKVILLE: The Cobequid Community Health Centre is piloting a new program in the emergency department designed to enhance patient experience and reduce wait times through a number system. Effective today (April 23), anyone visiting the department takes a number, similar to a blood collection appointment. The number will be called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[849,8221,2405,13,8222],"class_list":["post-53867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-cobequid-community-health-centre-foundation","tag-cobequid-health-centrecommunity","tag-er-department","tag-lower-sackville","tag-new-number-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}