Hours are not published for this ER. We can't estimate the wait here; comparable ERs run 2h 14m – 3h 39m.
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Open on ERstat →IWK Health Centre is an emergency department in Halifax, NS. CIHI records 47,399 emergency visits a year here. It does not publish a live wait time, so ERstat shows an estimate.
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Emergency departments use triage. Patients with more serious conditions are seen first, regardless of arrival time.
Wait times are estimates based on Nova Scotia 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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