Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
Jul 24, 2026
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Summer ER overcrowding worse than last year despite Santé Québec's efforts
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HEALTH
Summer ER overcrowding worse than last year despite Santé Québec’s efforts
The average length of stay for an admitted ER patient is nearly 24 hours.
Patients lying on stretchers in the hallway of a Montreal hospital emergency ward on Feb. 27, 2020. (Montreal Gazette)
By
Aaron Derfel
July 24, 2026 at 8:48 a.m.
Last Updated: July 24, 2026 at 2:35 p.m.
Despite Santé Québec’s stated mission to make the province’s health-care system more efficient, the situation in hospital emergency rooms is markedly worse this summer than for the same period last year.
The average length of stay for ad…
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