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Jul 12, 2022 · Family doctors are pushing back against claims that they are partly responsible for the woes of hospital emergency rooms across Ontario by limiting patients' in-person appointments.
Jan 11, 2024 · According to a recent report by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, there could be 4.4. million people without a family doctor by 2026.
Jan 16, 2024 · With a family doctor shortage, increasing burnout among health-care workers and ever-growing wait times at emergency departments putting more and more pressure on Ontario’s health-care...
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When Mia Hutchinson took her daughter Téa to the emergency room at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto on a Wednesday night in June, the board in the waiting room indicated a wait time of three-and-a-half hours. "So we thought maybe four, four and a half hours. We never thought it would be eight hours," said Hutchinson. "We sat in a hallway with three ot...
Nancy Hunter says her husband Kevin received marvellous care from the staff on the cancer ward at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont., but his experiences in its emergency room were anything but ideal. After Kevin's diagnosis of lymphoma, cancer ward staff issued him a special card with instructions that while undergoing chemotherapy, he should get t...
On a Wednesday in mid-June, Fiona Hammett's blood pressure was dropping and she passed out. She was taken to the emergency room at Hamilton's Juravinski Hospital, where her son Greg Noonan says she waited 14 hours in a chair before she was seen. "A nurse came to help her go to the washroom when she passed out again, she was showing signs of a strok...
Mona Romeh had been waiting in the emergency room at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital for nearly six hours with a broken bone in her right hand when she spotted this story about ER backlogs in Ontario, and sent an email to CBC News. "Funny how I came across your article now. As I sit here. So fitting," Romeh wrote. "I have not seen a doctor yet...
On Father's Day, William Walker's blood pressure spiked. "He was feeling very dizzy, had a headache and was nauseous," said his wife Grace Walker. "He has a heart condition so we didn't want to take any chances." She called Telehealth Ontario for advice and was told that William's symptoms warranted going to the emergency department. His wait at La...
Irene Fraser has only been to an emergency room twice in her life, and that is all the more remarkable given she's 100 years old. Fraser suffered a fall at her long-term care home on a Sunday in mid-June and was brought to the emergency room of Hamilton Health Sciences' Juravinski Hospital before noon. Her son Jim and daughter-in-law Janet Fraser, ...
Nov 4, 2022 · With emergency room wait times soaring in Ontario, many doctors are sounding the alarm over the obstacles primary health care providers face in alleviating the strain on hospitals.
Oct 16, 2024 · Long wait lists for care, a family doctor shortage, and emergency department closures have pushed the province's health system to the point of "catastrophe," Ontario doctors are warning. The Ontario Medical Association said on Wednesday that the provincial government needs to do more to "stop the crisis," which is also the focus of an advocacy ...
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Dec 6, 2023 · Ontario has no central plan to help hospitals tackle nurse shortages that lead to temporary emergency department closures, the province's acting auditor general found, while a significant portion...
