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Remember the story I shared of my wife seeing a guy who had deeply cut his arm with a chainsaw and was dripping blood all over the floor for an hour or more?
THIS is socialised medicine. I haven't looked, but I imagine if you read all the comments people posted, you will learn straight from the horses mouth what citizens are experiencing. This is a nation wide issue.
Oh, the comments were so compelling they closed it for new comments. Someone is surprised that Canadians are voicing their anger...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...medicine-healthcare-beyond-capacity-1.5420434
Overcrowding has become so common in Ontario hospitals that patient beds are now placed in hallways and conference rooms not only at times of peak demand, but routinely day after day, research by CBC News reveals.
New data obtained through a freedom of information request show the widespread extent of the province's "hallway medicine" problem, something that Premier Doug Ford has promised to end.
An exclusive analysis of the data by CBC News shows that hospital gridlock — a phenomenon that used to be restricted to surges in patients during flu season — is the new normal.
Some of Ontario's biggest hospitals were filled beyond 100 per cent occupancy nearly every day in the first half of last year.
Five hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as the main hospital in Hamilton, Sudbury, Peterborough and Niagara Falls all spent more than 160 days over their funded capacity during the 181-day period from January through June 2019.
CBC News analyzed data for all 169 acute care hospital sites in the province during this six-month time frame. Some of the key findings:
"These are really big numbers," said Donald Redelmeier, a professor of medicine at University of Toronto. He said the data show the hallway medicine problem is neither occasional nor restricted to a few hospitals.
THIS is socialised medicine. I haven't looked, but I imagine if you read all the comments people posted, you will learn straight from the horses mouth what citizens are experiencing. This is a nation wide issue.
Oh, the comments were so compelling they closed it for new comments. Someone is surprised that Canadians are voicing their anger...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...medicine-healthcare-beyond-capacity-1.5420434
Overcrowding has become so common in Ontario hospitals that patient beds are now placed in hallways and conference rooms not only at times of peak demand, but routinely day after day, research by CBC News reveals.
New data obtained through a freedom of information request show the widespread extent of the province's "hallway medicine" problem, something that Premier Doug Ford has promised to end.
An exclusive analysis of the data by CBC News shows that hospital gridlock — a phenomenon that used to be restricted to surges in patients during flu season — is the new normal.
Some of Ontario's biggest hospitals were filled beyond 100 per cent occupancy nearly every day in the first half of last year.
Five hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as the main hospital in Hamilton, Sudbury, Peterborough and Niagara Falls all spent more than 160 days over their funded capacity during the 181-day period from January through June 2019.
CBC News analyzed data for all 169 acute care hospital sites in the province during this six-month time frame. Some of the key findings:
- 83 hospitals were beyond 100 per cent capacity for more than 30 days.
- 39 hospitals hit 120 per cent capacity or higher for at least one day.
- 40 hospitals averaged 100 per cent capacity or higher.
"These are really big numbers," said Donald Redelmeier, a professor of medicine at University of Toronto. He said the data show the hallway medicine problem is neither occasional nor restricted to a few hospitals.
