Les Jones

Health Care > Canadian ER Wait Times

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation via Colby Cosh:

Quebec's emergency rooms are bursting at the seams, especially in Montreal and the Outaouais, despite some $60 million spent last year by the Liberal government to relieve pressure on hospitals' front lines, according to an annual report on health care.

For the second year in a row, Montreal newspaper La Presse rated admission times at Quebec hospitals and found the average time to be admitted to hospital through an emergency room is 16 hours and 18 minutes, about 30 minutes longer than two years ago.

The average exceeds Quebec's target wait time of 12 hours, established by Jean Charest's Liberal government in its last mandate.

and this:

Some Montreal hospitals are closing their emergency rooms on a regular basis to discourage people from coming in to seek treatment.

That'll fix that pesky supply and demand problem!