Ontario hospitals are experiencing staff shortages at an 'unprecedented' level, an executive at the provincial agency overseeing them says, but the situation may improve in the coming weeks as the seventh wave of COVID-19 recedes.
Last Updated Friday, August 5, 2022 5:22PM EDT
The system has always struggled to staff remote areas, Simpson noted, but the problem has now extended to medium and large community hospitals and some academic hospitals. "I'm pretty optimistic ... that by September, we should be looking better from a staffing point of view than we do today," he said.
Simpson also said it's difficult for hospitals to share nursing staff because they are employees of individual hospitals. He said a "provincial workforce" is something to consider that might mitigate future harms in similarly tight staffing situations.
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