Asian Tribune Your Multilingual Newspaper covering World and local news News
A program that helps rural and northern Ontario hospitals avoid temporary ER closures is set to expire at the end of the month, with no signal from the government as to whether it will be extended, made permanent or simply end. Many of the province’s more isolated hospitals rely on doctors from …
Read More »Ontario government and doctors reach last minute deal in effort to save virtual ERs
Ontario has granted a three-month funding extension for doctors to provide care through virtual emergency departments, The Canadian Press has learned. Several hospitals had said they planned to shut down their virtual ERs — and one says it still will — because the provincial funding was set to run out …
Read More »No evidence enrolled patients subbed ER for virtual family doctor visits: OMA study
A study led by researchers with the Ontario Medical Association found no evidence patients substituted hospital emergency rooms for virtual visits with their family doctor in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers say the peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, is significant given recent …
Read More »Canada’s ERs are under intense pressure — and winter is coming
Hospital emergency departments are jammed up in much of the country even before the traditional flu season begins, raising concerns about the winter months ahead. In Montreal, for instance, ERs hovered at about 150 per cent capacity for much of the past week — and some surpassed 200 per cent. Dr. Judy …
Read More »ERs in 12 N.L. towns have had multiple closures this year. Here’s how they add up
According to news releases from Eastern Health, the emergency room in Whitbourne has been closed or on diversion for nearly 50 days so far in 2022. (Jeremy Eaton/CBC) Twelve emergency departments run by Eastern Health and Central Health have collectively been closed or placed on diversion for more than five …
Read More »Solutions to Ontario emergency room waits are found beyond hospital ERs
If you’ve spent hours waiting to see a doctor in an Ontario emergency room, or days in the ER waiting to get admitted to hospital, you likely didn’t see the real factors driving those delays. That’s because the record-high wait times in emergency departments in this province are in large part …
Read More »An Ontario doctor says ERs are more stressed than he’s ever seen — the data backs it up
Patients in emergency rooms around Ontario are waiting record lengths of time to get admitted to hospital, a situation medical professionals say only appears to be getting worse. The trend is particularly worrisome for hospitals because it’s happening despite a diminishing COVID-19 caseload, and because it comes at a time of …
Read More »