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Jan 11, 2024 · The Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa said earlier this week it was at 115 per cent occupancy, with 35 patients admitted in the emergency department waiting for a bed and another 70 people ...
Apr 13, 2021 · He said 36 patients were admitted to the ICU at the hospital he works at within a 24-hour period the day before, “and that’s the highest number in the pandemic by a lot.” Newsletter sign-up ...
Jan 11, 2024 · This newborn waited 5 hours for a doctor. Experts say Ontario's ER wait times have never been worse. The Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa said earlier this week it was at 115 per cent ...
Nov 2, 2020 · November 2, 2020 · 7 min read. Some of Ontario's largest hospitals are nearing or exceeding full capacity even before flu season and the second wave of COVID-19 bring an expected surge in new patients. Data obtained by CBC News shows that the acute care wards of a dozen major hospitals were filled above 95 per cent of their funded capacity for ...
- Repeal Bill 124
- Train, Register More Workers
- Build Standalone Centres to Catch Up on Surgical Backlog
- Improve Work Conditions For Staff
- Implement A System to Track, Prevent Staff Shortages
Scrapping the law known as Bill 124 -- which caps wage increases for public sector contracts at one per cent a year for three years — is top of the list for the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. Doris Grinspun, the association's CEO, said the law needs to be repealed to ensure nurses are adequately compensated for their work, which would e...
Experts say more people need to be registered and trained to work in health care to lighten the workloads of those currently in the sector. Last week, Ontario's health minister directed regulatory colleges for nurses and doctors to develop plans to more quickly register internationally educated professionals. But Grinspun, of the RNAO, said she's w...
Ontario should build publicly funded, standalone health centres that can perform less complex outpatient surgeries and procedures, said Dr. Rose Zacharias, president of the Ontario Medical Association and an emergency department physician. This would free up beds and other resources in hospitals, which Zacharias said would result in shorter patient...
Burnout among health-care workers, and the conditions that contribute to it, need to be addressed, experts say. Grinspun, of the RNAO, said nurses face "brutal" workloads, and having more staff is key to fixing the problem. Mental health support, mentorship and good leadership will in turn aid retention, she added, as nurses contend with nearly thr...
Experts say a national system is also needed to track staffing levels at different health-care institutions to ensure that there is a balanced distribution of the workforce and prevent service disruptions. "In certain areas, we have a lot of people and then a lot more areas, we don't have the optimum capacity, so we don't have enough primary care p...
Jan 11, 2024 · But without workers, our hospitals and our long-term care homes, they can’t function.” There were more than 200 unplanned temporary emergency department closures in 23 Ontario hospitals between July 2022 and June 2023 due to doctor and nurse shortages, Ontario’s auditor general found in a report late last year.
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Ontario hospital budgets reflect the lowest hospital expenditure per capita by a provincial government. If Ontario were to fund hospitals at the average rate per capita for all other provinces, it would cost the province an additional $3.7 billion; under Alberta’s funding model, $4.5 billion. Ontario hospitals contribute to:
