Embed a live ER status widget on your site

A free embed showing live emergency-room closures, reopenings and disruptions — for your newsroom, municipal page, or community group. Mobile-first, light & dark, auto-updating, no account.

Free for personal & non-commercial use with attribution. Building a commercial product? See data licensing. Prefer raw data? Grab a free key for the JSON API · RSS.

Live preview

Why embed live ER status?

When an emergency department closes overnight or diverts ambulances, the people who need that information are local. A widget on a community news site or a town's homepage puts real-time ER access right where residents already look — and it keeps itself current without anyone having to update it.

How it works

  1. Pick a region, theme, and how many updates to show.
  2. Copy the iframe snippet (works almost anywhere) or the JavaScript snippet (auto-resizes, more native).
  3. Paste it into your page's HTML. It updates itself from then on.

The widget itself needs no API key — just paste and go.

Want the raw data? Use the API

For building your own display or pulling ER status into another system, use the JSON API. It needs a free API key (the widget above does not) — create one in your account and send it as an X-API-Key header (or ?key=):

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://erstat.ca/api/v1/closures

Get a free API key → · Full API docs · RSS · Licensing

See the full live feed · Data & methodology

Frequently asked questions

Is the ERstat widget free?

Yes. The embed is completely free for any site — newsrooms, municipal and health-authority pages, community groups, and personal sites. No account, no API key, no attribution fee.

What does the widget show?

A live, auto-updating list of emergency-room closures, reopenings and service disruptions for Canada or a province you choose. Data refreshes automatically and matches what you see on erstat.ca/feed.

Will it match my site’s design?

Set the theme to Auto and the widget follows your visitors’ light or dark preference, or pick Light or Dark explicitly. It is mobile-first and fluid from about 280px wide up to full width.

iframe or JavaScript — which should I use?

The iframe works on virtually any platform (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, news CMSs) and is the safest choice. The JavaScript embed auto-resizes to its content and looks more native, but needs a site that allows third-party <script> tags. Both include a link back to ERstat.

Can I get the raw data instead?

Yes. Use the JSON API — it needs a free API key you create in your account — or the RSS feed (no key) if you just want a simple list. The widget itself never needs a key.

Can I use the widget or data in a commercial product?

The embed and free API are for non-commercial use with attribution. Commercial use — plus historical and bulk data, an uptime SLA, higher limits and webhooks — is available under a commercial license. See the data licensing page.