Northern Haida Gwaii Hospital and Health Centre (North End)
Open 24 hours. We can't estimate the wait here; comparable ERs run 57m – 3h 12m.
In an emergency, call 911.
In an emergency, call 911. Independent services, not affiliated with this hospital. Free nurse advice: 811.
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Quieter times: No historical wait time data is available for this facility. As a small rural emergency department, mornings on weekdays are generally quieter at most community hospitals. If your condition is not life-threatening, earlier in the day is typically advisable.
Busier times: No historical data is available for this facility. Like most emergency departments, evenings and weekends can be busier. As this is a small hospital with limited bed capacity, arriving during peak times may mean longer waits for non-critical cases.
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Masset · 0 km away
Queen Charlotte · 85 km away
Queen Charlotte · 85 km away
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Open on ERstat →The Northern Haida Gwaii Hospital and Health Centre in Masset, BC is the primary hospital serving the north end of Haida Gwaii, including Masset, Old Massett (Gaw Tlagee), Port Clements (Gamadiis), and surrounding communities. The emergency department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with five stretcher bays, offering acute care, diagnostic services, lab, medical imaging, cardiac diagnostics, and surgical services. As a small rural community hospital operated by Northern Health on Haida Nation territory, it provides essential emergency and inpatient care for residents across the northern archipelago.
24/7 Emergency Department (5 stretcher bays), Acute inpatient care (4 beds), Long-term care (4 private rooms + 1 respite bed), Palliative care, Intensive care, Cardiac diagnostics, Laboratory services, Medical imaging, Surgical services, Rehabilitation and convalescent care, Physiotherapy, Mental health counselling, Social work, Public health services, Child development services, Speech language pathology, Outpatient family medicine and nurse practitioner clinic, Visiting specialist outpatient clinics, Telehealth / Virtual Clinic, Chronic disease education programs.
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Northern Haida Gwaii Hospital is a small community facility in Masset where surface-level parking is typical. Specific details on parking cost or dedicated accessibility spaces are not publicly confirmed — contact the hospital directly at 250-626-4700 for parking information.
Eagle Transit, in partnership with Northern Health, operates a weekday hospital-to-hospital service between Masset (NHGH) and Daajing Giids (Queen Charlotte). Departures from NHGH are at 9:00 AM, with return from Daajing Giids at 12:45 PM (arriving Masset ~2:55 PM). The fare is $10.00 per passenger; medical trips are free. Reserve by calling 1-250-559-4461. Service does not run on holidays. Personal vehicle is the primary means of local access.
Emergency departments use triage. Patients with more serious conditions are seen first, regardless of arrival time.
Wait times are estimates based on British Columbia health data. Actual wait times may vary.
This hospital does not publish a live wait, so the figure above comes from our model rather than from its own feed. We publish how that model performs where it can be checked, at the hospitals that do publish. See the accuracy scorecard, or how we work the number out.
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