Two Ottawa hospitals have a few of the longest wait instances in Ontario to see a health care provider within the emergency room this fall, and all Ottawa hospitals exceed the provincial common.
Statistics from Well being High quality Ontario present the provincial common for a primary evaluation by a health care provider within the emergency room was 2.1 hours in September, up from 2 hours in August.
The wait time for a primary evaluation by a health care provider was 4.1 hours at CHEO in September and 4 hours on the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Solely the Windsor Regional Hospital’s Metropolitan Campus had an extended wait time for a primary evaluation in Ontario, at 4.4 hours.
The wait time at CHEO elevated from 2.6 hours in July and a pair of.7 hours in August to 4.1 hours in September. The wait time remained at 4 hours on the Queensway-Carleton Hospital in August and September.
The common wait time for a primary evaluation within the ER in September was 3.2 hours on the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus (2.8 hours in August), three hours on the Ottawa Hospital Basic Campus (2.7 hours in August), and a pair of.7 hours on the Montfort Hospital (2.7 hours in August)
Throughout jap Ontario, the wait time for a primary evaluation by a health care provider within the ER was 3.9 hours on the Hawkesbury and District Basic Hospital, 3.1 hours on the Brockville Basic Hospital and three hours on the Lennox and Addington County Basic Hospital.
The Kingston Well being Sciences Centre – Resort Dieu campus had the bottom wait time in jap Ontario, at 1.5 hours in August.
Well being High quality Ontario additionally reported on the typical time “low-urgency sufferers” spent within the emergency room with out being admitted to the hospital. The provincial common in September was 3.2 hours. Here’s a take a look at the typical time sufferers spent in an Ottawa hospital ER with out being admitted:
Ottawa Hospital Civic Hospital – 5.1 hours
Queensway-Carleton Hospital – 5.3 hours
Montfort Hospital – 5.4 hours
CHEO – 5.8 hours
Ottawa Hospital Basic Campus – 5.8 hours
Roughly 40 per cent of low-urgent sufferers completed their emergency room go to throughout the goal time of 4 hours on the 5 Ottawa hospitals, in accordance with Well being High quality Ontario.
