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However, patients requiring emergency surgery that cannot be safely provided on site during this temporary disruption may be transferred to the Huntsville site or another regional hospital to receive the care they need as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We anticipate Operating Room services at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital to resume as early as next week, pending system repairs, testing, and confirmation that conditions are safe for surgical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sincerely appreciate the patience, understanding, and support of our patients and community as our teams work to restore normal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Muskoka <em>Algonquin Healthcare on social media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to an issue with the chiller system serving the CT and Operating Room areas at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, surgical services have been temporarily moved to the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":226710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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