Patients in Ontario emergency rooms are waiting too long to be admitted, NDP MPP France Gelinas says.
Gelinas, her party’s health critic, noted that data from Health Quality Ontario shows just under one in four ER patients were admitted within the recommended target time of eight hours.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
Patients waited an average of 2.1 hours to be seen by a doctor in emergency rooms in July with three-quarter of low-urgency patients cared for within the target time of four hours.
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