Northeast Health Wangaratta hopes to have permits extended for its doctors and other staff to continue crossing the border to get to work, before they expire on Monday.
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Indi MP Helen Haines said the cross-border commissioner was involved in discussions with the hospital and NSW government on Friday.
"To have our health services, yet again, on a Friday wondering if they will have a critical health workforce available Monday morning is I think an untenable situation," she said.
"He was very hopeful that would be resolved before the weekend - let's hope so.
"The fact that we have to go through this again is extremely frustrating.
"This is a key issue that needs resolution."
The hospital wants a "rolling permit" for staff that lasts until the border is reopened, rather than having to keep renegotiating.
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Dr Haines said there was another breakthrough in this week when Victorian-based maternal and child health nurses, who work in Aboriginal health services in Albury, were granted an exemption to get back to work across the border.
"I hope it sets a path for more exemptions for sensible movement of critical workforce across the border," she said.
But others who are still banned from making the trip interstate include disability workers, podiatrists, and technology and maintenance workers who service AWH's biomedical engineering machines.
"They can't maintain those key pieces of equipment," Dr Haines said.
"How that's not considered a critical worker is beyond me, that needs to be fixed.
"A health service cannot be waiting for a technician to come from Sydney to fix broken machines - that's clearly not safe."
Dr Haines confirmed she and her husband Phil both came back with negative coronavirus results after two weeks of isolation, before she travels to Canberra for Monday's sitting of Parliament.
Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter this week announced new rules to allow MPs who could not be in Canberra to contribute speeches via video link, but they will still not be able to vote.
Dr Haines said she would not take up this option in the future.
"I think it's crucial, particularly as an independent, to be in Canberra, to represent Indi and to not only give a speech, but to be able to vote," she said.
"I think we need to find technological solutions to voting.
"Other nations have managed it. I don't think it should be beyond Australia."
