The Civic is positively bursting at the seams. Patients are everywhere – in emergency reception, in hallways, in a tent out in the parking lot on Carling Avenue, in repurposed spaces, lying for days on stretchers instead of proper hospital beds.
Nursing scuttlebutt on Thursday night had it that the hospital had exceeded 200 percent capacity… again.
MOH has currently locked the Bed Census Summary website, so we don’t know.
Most of Ontario’s large community hospitals are effectively full, said Anthony Dale, CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association, “Hospitals are walking across a tightrope right now.”
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