Ont. health ministry data on hospital overcrowding riddled with errors

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LONDON, Ont. -- Ontario's health ministry failed to correctly track which hospitals are most overcrowded, missing red flags and allowing patients to suffer, experts warn.

The province missed critical errors in its data until the problems were found by QMI Agency.

What the ministry claimed was a half-full hospital system in the Niagara region was instead one of Ontario's most crowded, a mistake bureaucrats refused to admit until QMI Agency contacted the hospital network directly.


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Pretty sure ER's are NOT overcrowded with emergency cases but with the sprained finger, coughing kid and hangnail crowd. But still, mr wynne and his gang didn't do a very good job.

 

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Pretty sure ER's are NOT overcrowded with emergency cases but with the sprained finger, coughing kid and hangnail crowd. But still, mr wynne and his gang didn't do a very good job.

That's a part of the problem for sure, but not all of it. It's also the backlog from admitting as well. The second to last time my mom was in hospital she spent two days in the ER after admittance, was moved upstairs to a bed in a new area (that strictly speaking was not open yet and, yes, there were many empty beds up there) and then moved again to the proper ward.

Bureaucracy gums up the whole works.

I should also add that she was then released on a Saturday afternoon with no family being informed, without informing the CCAC (who were responsible for her home care services). They just put a disabled woman on a patient transfer and sent her home.

Oh and then they sent her the bill for the transport.