The Chesley hospital’s emergency room will be closed for the next eight weeks.
Hospital CEO Michael Barrett says the ER closure is due to a shortage of nurses.
The small town hospital has been closing its emergency room in the overnight hours since early September and has had rolling 24-hour closures in recent weeks.
Barrett says this is not a step they wanted to take, but acute nursing shortages, exacerbated by recent unexpected time off requests, have put the hospital in this position.
This is a developing story, more details to come.
