The closure at Bowmanville Hospital highlights the continuing crisis Ontario’s hospitals are enduring due to staffing shortages.
A GTA intensive-care unit has been forced to temporarily close and relocate patients, as the Ontario health-care system struggles with staff shortages and fallout from theLakeridge Health, which has multiple hospital locations east of Toronto, said in a statement Thursday that the ICU at Bowmanville Hospital is closing and is relocating critical-care services to its Ajax Pickering and Oshawa hospitals.
“This decision was not made lightly,” and it is an “extremely challenging time,” it added. It also said the situation is continuing to be assessed and the goal is to bring back critical-care services when staffing stabilizes and when it is “safe to do so.” The unions also urged the government to ban nursing agency staff as they are paid two to three times more than hospital workers. They also said an “aggressive plan” is needed to bring back thousands of nurses and other health-care providers back to the beleaguered sector.
It has led the hospital to pause admission to 12 beds at the Harbour East 1 at West Fifth section of the hospital that services the mental health of seniors who are recovering from psychiatric disease. Kingston General Hospital has also had to introduce closures within its emergency department. The hospital told the Star that it has “intermittently closed a 10-bed section of our Emergency Department that traditionally is used to support patients with less urgent needs, or patients who are waiting to be admitted to another unit within the hospital.”
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