The wait time to see a doctor in an Ottawa hospital emergency room exceeded the provincial average in June, with two hospitals in the province's top 10 for wait times.
New statistics from Health Quality Ontario show patients waited an average of 2.1 hours for a first assessment by a doctor in an emergency room across Ontario. In Ottawa, the average wait time ranged from 2.2 hours to 3.6 hours to see a doctor in June.
CHEO had the second longest wait times to see a doctor in June at 3.5 hours, down from 3.7 hours in May. At the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, wait times remained at 2.8 hours in June for a second straight month. The average length of time "low-urgency patients" spent in the ER in Ottawa ranged from 3.8 hours to 5.4 hours in June. The target time for patients not requiring admission to spend in the ER is four hours.
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