Stollery Children’s Hospital may have to pause admissions due to lack of staff

The Stollery Children’s Hospital may have to cap admissions over the holidays because of a lack of doctors. In an emailed statement, Alberta Health Services said that the Stollery will have gaps for three nights as physician shifts go unfilled, but added it is trying to fill the shifts. “If these shifts remain unfilled and the number of admitted internal medicine patients exceeds 50, the surge teams may need to temporarily pause new internal medicine admissions overnight,” the statement reads, i