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Managing your pain. During your stay, a staff member will assess your pain using a numeric pain scale of 0 to 10 or a visual face chart. A score of 0 is no pain and a score of 10 is the worst possible pain. Be sure to discuss your pain and possible pain management options with your health care team.
Starting June 25, 2020, GGH will trial loosening visitor restrictions to allow care partners to support select inpatients. Eligible patients include: ICU patients not requiring isolation precautions Long stay patients admitted for ≥ 14 days not requiring isolation precautions Palliative patients Parents of paediatric patients
Jan 12, 2024 · GGH said over the last 30 days, a patient waited about five hours to see a physician, up from the 3.7 hours during the same period of time last year. And for those who need to be admitted, the wait has been cut down, but it’s nowhere near where the hospital wants to be. “In the last seven days, patients who came to the hospital and needed ...
Patients are treated based on how urgent their health care needs are in this order: Life threatening – cardiac arrest, major trauma, unconsciousness or non-responsive, limb amputation. Emergent – head injury, spinal cord injury, heart attack, high fever in infant less than 3 months old. Urgent – dislocated shoulder, asthma, seizure ...
Dec 30, 2022 · At GGH, for hip replacements, the average wait time from consultation with a specialist to surgery is 292 days, or 41 weeks. Knee replacement surgery is even longer, at 346 days. Skinner believes the demand for these surgeries is “due to the demographic shift in our population age. As we age, the need to access these surgeries increases.”.
Jan 2, 2013 · Contact the Patient Relations, Quality and Patient Safety team between 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call: (519) 837-6440 ext. 2815 Email: patient.representative@gghorg.ca
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