This webpage is in place to provide the Mission community with information regarding the Mission Memorial Hospital Emergency Department.
Last updated: October 30, 2026
Fraser Health advises Mission and surrounding area residents that due to physician staffing challenges at the Mission Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, we are implementing temporary overnight service interruptions from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. on the following nights:
- October 30 and October 31 (Friday and Saturday nights)
- Sunday, November 22
The service interruptions will begin at 5:00 p.m. to ensure all patients already in the Emergency Department can be seen by a physician before they end their shift at 11:00 p.m.
After 5:00 p.m., emergency-trained nurses will continue to be on site and available to support walk-in patients needing basic care, assist with re-direction of care and/or transfer patients with urgent needs to a neighboring hospital.
The Emergency Department will reopen each morning at 8:00am following each overnight interruption.
Translated resources are available in the following languages: Farsi | Hindi | Punjabi
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Where else can I access care in Mission?
You may visit the Mission Urgent and Primary Care Centre from 9:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m. daily, including statutory holidays. At the Centre, you can receive care for urgent, non-life-threatening health conditions that do not require Emergency Department services, such as fever, minor cuts that may need stitches, burns, headaches or earaches, and sprains.
Learn more about Urgent and Primary Care Centres.
If you have a health concern and would like to speak with a registered nurse, you can call Fraser Health Virtual Care at 1-800-314-0999 seven days a week between 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Call our Fraser Health Crisis Line 24/7 at 1-877-820-7444
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Will there be future service interruptions at the Mission Memorial Hospital Emergency Department?
We recognize how important consistent access to emergency care is for the Mission community and we are actively working to address physician staffing gaps as they arise to maintain service continuity. We are continuing to make every effort to recruit more staff and prevent further service interruptions, and we have several physician candidates currently moving through the hiring process. Should further service interruptions become necessary, we will communicate this to the community in advance to support our patients and their families in feeling informed and prepared.
We remain committed to open communication with the community as we continue to support patients and their families. If future service interruptions become necessary, we will communicate them to the community in advance.
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What is being done to fix this issue?
We are actively recruiting physicians to Mission Memorial Hospital through national and international efforts to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. Our ongoing recruitment efforts have begun to help as we have successfully recruited a full-time physician into the Emergency Department at Mission Memorial Hospital, and we currently have several more promising candidates in the hiring process. The new physician has begun working in the Emergency Department and will help improve emergency department physician staffing coverage over the coming months.
To support our international recruitment efforts, we are encouraged by the updated College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC bylaws coming into effect in July. These bylaws can lead to decreased onboarding times for international medical graduates, similar to bylaw amendments made in 2025 for USA-based physicians.
Mission Memorial Hospital remains an important part of our regional network to support Mission and surrounding communities. Construction is underway on an $18-million expansion and renovation project to modernize the Emergency Department at Mission Memorial Hospital.
These upgrades give staff and medical staff better facilities and modern equipment, helping Fraser Health attract and retain staff and medical staff by creating a better-equipped, more supportive place to provide care. Construction to expand and modernize the Emergency Department at Mission Memorial Hospital is on schedule, and we are expecting to open our doors to patients in the spring of 2027.
While this work continues, we thank our staff and medical staff at Mission Memorial Hospital for their continued dedication to their patients. We are grateful to the physicians in the hospital and in the community for their ongoing support in filling shifts in the Mission Memorial Hospital Emergency Department.