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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 20, 2023 1:05 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size OTTAWA — Ontario is adding $44 million to a fund for hospitals to help reduce ER wait times and allowing more hospitals to qualify. The new funding is on top of …
Read More »Ontario hospitals prepare and brace for summer ER staffing challenges
TORONTO — Hospitals in smaller and rural Ontario communities have been recruiting, training, and poring over schedules in the hopes of avoiding another summer wave of temporary ER closures — though the problem never really went away. Staffing shortages led hospitals to close their emergency departments for hours or even …
Read More »Alcohol related health care visits spiked during pandemic in Ontario: study
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 2, 2023 6:35 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A new Ontario study suggests there was a spike in health-care visits related to alcohol during the pandemic, both among people with a history of problems with alcohol as well as …
Read More »Inside SickKids: An overworked Toronto emergency department prepares for a new surge
TORONTO — A baby screams in the distance as a security guard stands watch over the waiting room at the emergency department of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Parents cuddle their sick kids while others rock their little ones in strollers. A toddler sits on a bed sucking on a …
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