Ontario ER doctors raise alarm on hospital overcrowding
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Ontario ER doctors raise alarm on hospital overcrowding
KELLY GRANT
HEALTH REPORTER
PUBLISHED 37 MINUTES AGO
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The emergency department at UHN’s Toronto Western Hospital in March, 2024. In April of 2026, Ontario patients who required hospital admission spent 17.2 hours in the ER, more than twice the eight-hour target.
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Three-quarters of Ontario emergency physicians say their departments are critically or severely overcrowded, and that patients awaiting beds inside their hospitals are stuck in the ER on ne…
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