Winnipeg continues to have shittiest emergency room wait times in Canada, Concordia Hospital takes t - Polidicks

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-er-wait-times-worst-in-country-again-report-says-1.3368355[/url] [quote=CBC]Winnipeg hospitals claim the title for having the longest emergency room wait times in the country, a newly released report says. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Concordia Hospital posted the longest ER wait times across the nation in 2014-15 with an average delay of seven hours before being assessed by a physician. The national average for the same period was 3.1 hours. Out of the nearly 200 hospitals for which data were gathered, all of Winnipeg's six hospitals were ranked in the top 12.[/quote]

Shouldn't have to wait more than 20 minutes in any hospital, it's ridiculous. It's a fucking emergency room.

[QUOTE=Amplar;49347250]Shouldn't have to wait more than 20 minutes in any hospital, it's ridiculous. It's a fucking emergency room.[/QUOTE] People need to stop going to the ER every time they get the snivels

Holy shit I had no idea, was in the Concordia ER about a year ago and it indeed took me exactly 7 hours to get checked out. The best part was when they took a few tests and the doctor said "idk man come back if it happens again" (was having sudden bursts of extreme abdominal pain, went away after a while) and sent me on my way. That was the day I started putting the "care" in quotations whenever I brag to my American friends about my free health""""""care"""""".

Winnepeg is the Canadian Detroit so its not a good representrepresentative for the Canadian experience.

Is this next to Concordia university? I remember hearing something about Condordia being the worst university in Canada for freedom of speech recently.

does canada have urgent care centers?

[QUOTE=Amplar;49347250]Shouldn't have to wait more than 20 minutes in any hospital, it's ridiculous. It's a fucking emergency room.[/QUOTE] 3 hours is about as much as it is here in freedomland and then they expect you to pay for it afterwards

[QUOTE=Amplar;49347250]Shouldn't have to wait more than 20 minutes in any hospital, it's ridiculous. It's a fucking emergency room.[/QUOTE] depends what the problem is you plum [editline]19th December 2015[/editline] people whining about waiting times need to expect to wait, because people in need of ACTUAL immediate medical attention must get priority over you.

Sometimes wait times in America really are due to supply and demand. [url]https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,10&as_vis=1&q=provider+shortage+health+care[/url] The crux of the issue is not only how we pay for care but also how we pay for education. People who want to be doctors no longer get interest free loans. In a country where there is a severe physician and nurse shortage, you would think the government would at the very least be sponsoring degrees for students with the ability, but no.

[QUOTE=Amplar;49347250]Shouldn't have to wait more than 20 minutes in any hospital, it's ridiculous. It's a fucking emergency room.[/QUOTE] Wait times at an ER are based on the critical situation of the patient. If someone comes in with a case of the sniffles and a headache, with no real sign that they need to be admitted immediately, they're gonna have a long wait time. Patients in critical cases that come in, who need immediate attention, will almost always get admitted as soon as they walk through the door. I don't know how it is in Canada(or most parts of the US), but ERs here have a section of the ER dedicated to minor cases. They are like 3-6 rooms that handle minor cases such as someone coming in with a stuffy nose who thinks they're about to die from it. Because of that, those rooms are always booked, leading to the feeling that the ER is full. But just because you wait forever doesn't mean you'll still have to wait in the ER if you start coding, or start developing symptoms that are life threatening and need immediate attention. You got to remember, most ERs have a small number of staff. And they also have a certain amount of rooms. They're gonna make the man with a small case of coughing from a cold wait because more than likely that guy just wants a doctors excuse or some medication, while the person with a GSW being rushed to the hospital or a guy walking in bleeding crazily will be taken to the back because he has an actual critical case that needs immediate care. I've yet to see a guy holding onto his severed limb complain about a wait time longer than 20 minutes.

ya, they don't call it emergency as in "you will always be seen as an emergency", they call it emergency because of actual emergencies.

The ER was called Emergency Room because it handles emergencies, not simple URTIs. You can be sure that the case if is an actual emergency/life threatening, the triage zone in ERs would have attended to them immediately. Even if your condition is potentially dangerous, but most likely will not be immediately life threatening, then you and the ER had no choice but to put you on qeue. Hospitals don't have that much resources. Their hands are full with actual emergencies, not including people who thought having cold is an emergency (which magically occurs mostly on Mondays), god bless 'em

About the same in the US where people have died waiting in the emergency room.

Maybe if people wouldn't use the ER as a walk-in clinic it wouldn't be so bad.

Well there's this new thing in Montréal called Chronometriq. It's a website that works in conjunction with some clinics where you can schedule an appointment online and it only costs 4 bucks. Basically what it does is track the number of patients before you and warns you when there's only 3 patients left before it's your turn. Two weeks ago, I was able to go eat some breakfast and chill for about 2 hours at my brother's place after registering. Then when I got the automated text, I only had to wait 10 minutes at the clinic for an exam. They really need to roll this out everywhere because it's such a better system instead of waiting miserably in a waiting room.

[QUOTE=Singed;49347664]Holy shit I had no idea, was in the Concordia ER about a year ago and it indeed took me exactly 7 hours to get checked out. The best part was when they took a few tests and the doctor said "idk man come back if it happens again" (was having sudden bursts of extreme abdominal pain, went away after a while) and sent me on my way. That was the day I started putting the "care" in quotations whenever I brag to my American friends about my free health""""""care"""""".[/QUOTE] your doctor seen no severe problem, so therefore he told you to come back again if the problem persists. your problem went away. it's shit like this that makes the wait times so long.