Albury Wodonga Health expects to return to regular rosters next week now the NSW and Victorian border has reopened.
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Chief executive Michael Kalimnios said the service would resume the usual rotations that saw about 50 per cent of emergency department senior medical staff travelling from Melbourne.
While NSW Health exemptions had assisted staffing recently, Mr Kalimnios expressed relief this process would no longer be necessary.
"It simply alleviates the pressure on our local staff," he said.
"We've had staff in ED working lots of hours, working a lot of overtime and they're quite fatigued.
"Now we'll be able to go back to a normal roster where they're given appropriate breaks and it just will mean our service will return to normal in terms of our capacity that we're able to deliver."
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"In order to get people out of Melbourne, we had to get special exemption from NSW Health and that was a pretty tough process to go through," Mr Kalimnios said on Monday.
"The opening of the border just takes all that angst away from us and makes staffing much easier for us."
Northeast Health Wangaratta director of partnerships and well ageing David Kidd also welcomed the end of the border bubble.
"It makes a huge difference from the point of view of the relationships between the hospitals in our area," he said.
"With Benalla hospital and ourselves and Albury Wodonga Health, it just opens things up a lot more, makes it a lot easier, absolutely."
Mr Kidd said the reopening had less direct impact on Northeast Health now than it would have when Wangaratta sat outside the border region.
"It was very specific, they had to have details of every single individual staff member, so it wasn't just a blanket," he said.
"Once they extended the border bubble to extend as far as Wangaratta we were out of the woods as such then."
Mr Kalimnios said the mood around Albury Wodonga Health was "pretty positive", as shown by a social media video of staff members doing happy dances, and everyone was relieved to see the end of border permits.
"Not just because of the staffing issues but generally I think people are pretty fatigued about having to go through border checkpoints all the time," he said.
