Hospitals in smaller and rural Ontario communities have been recruiting, training, and poring over schedules in the hopes of avoiding another summer wave of temporary ER closures – though the problem never really went away.
Staffing shortages led hospitals to close their emergency departments for hours or even days at a time during the summer of 2022.
Other temporary closures were reported in the province during the winter, and now, just as the summer season is due to arrive, there have been more than half a dozen closures in recent days — including for 48 hours recently in Thessalon, a town in northern Ontario. Thessalon has been without a primary care physician for about two years, contributing to higher ER volumes. It has been relying on doctors from other communities to serve the hospital on a temporary basis, but those can be hard to attract, Vine said.In Minden, Ont., the hospital has decided to permanently close the local ER as of June 1, due to staff shortages.
"The rates that some of the agencies are charging have ballooned completely," he said. "They're absolutely taking advantage of the situation and they're taking advantage of the pandemic and the very demanding and punishing conditions that all health-care workers face." "We're rushing to make up for lost time and the government has implemented a wide range of well-designed and very constructive programs to recruit and retain, to incentivize health-care workers — and especially nurses – to consider practising in rural and remote communities," Dale said.
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