Global- Patients waiting more than a day to be admitted in Winnipeg hospitals: ‘It’s absolutely terrifying’
Data released by Shared Health from May 4 show the average total wait time for patients who end up being admitted, from triage and registration to being placed in a medicine bed, was 22.1 hours at the Grace, nearly 29 hours at Health Sciences Centre and a whopping 31.5 hours at St. Boniface.
“As the numbers presented are averages, some patients will unfortunately wait longer periods of time for admission – some significantly so – while others may have shorter waits,” a spokesperson from Shared Health said.
My brother was born at St. Boniface hospital. He was identified as an honorary Frog-Canadian and has been lording it over his family ever since.
“These numbers are a snapshot in time and will change – often significantly – from day to day and even hour to hour due to a number of factors, including patient volumes, patient acuity levels, medicine bed availability and staffing,” the spokesperson said.
_______________________________________
Staffing, patient volumes, bed availability. You have to love when the same reason is presented in different formats so it seems as if there is SOOOOO much to consider. How about inept staffing, inept management, inept planning, and inept protocol. My favorite is Patient Acuity Level. Essentially, that means the severity of the affliction. That’s WHY people go to the hospital. I’ll sum it all up. INCOMPETENCE.
You never hear a politician say “I went to emergency and had to wait 22 hours before being admitted”.
Only proles who work with their hands wait in emergency rooms.
Our elite classes get private healthcare.
We need to expand the maternity units. I think I’ve discovered the reason for the baby formula shortage in the US:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1526983113141891073
She’s a member of the same party as Hank “Guam might flip over and capsize” Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
They’re not the Dumbocrats for nothing.
If you die on a wait list, the wait list statistics improve.
And some people have expired while waiting in line.
Bottom line, get healthy , eat better, lose weight, exercise and avoid the hospitals at all costs.
Hospitals are death factories.
Incidentally, if you’re wondering how this can occur (and with regularity); it is a result of nationalized care. Hospital A no longer competes with Hospital B. As a result, the customer service aspect of medicine (which is paramount) is let by the wayside. No longer does the patient take precedence because there is no motivation to perform efficiently and effectively. Just like every other business (and medicine is, indeed, a business)…if there are no competitors forcing you to out shine their performance, there is little encouragement to plan properly, staff necessarily, or take an interest in the patient’s concerns. Nationalized healthcare is a flawed concept just like having only one of every product at the supermarket would be a failed concept or having only one type of car available for purchase.
In addition to breeding inept performance by healthcare staff…it guarantees stagnation and the inability to improve. The motivation is gone.
It all becomes a scam to get increased funding. A paramedic told me about a doctor who ordered a CT for a patient that would need to be transferred. The doctor was adamant that the transfer and scan take place. The patient was obviously deceased and the EMT’s refused to do the transfer, which infuriated the doctor. He was angry as he was not going to get paid for ordering the CT.
This abysmal situation is done by design – Socialized medicine in Canada is a monopoly. By definition monopolies are characterized by lack of competition, high costs, poor product quality and mediocre service.
Those waits are a fantasy in NS. Two days on a Stryker bed in the hallway is the norm here. Of course that then lets you into a building infested with rodents where the water has been undrinkable for years. It is so bad there now, you can’t shower in it or wash you hands. I am a widow as a result of NS healthcare.
Wait times at hospitals? It’s called work to rule. They try to piss off as many people as possible to scare politicians. Any fool could run a schedule to meet deadlines. Hospitals are run by special fools who deliberately create chaos.
Here’s a happy thought: ten years from now we’ll be calling this the good old days.
Fact: every main political party has presided over and contributed to this terrible state of affairs. And this is the reason they crapped themselves when the Wuhan flu arrived. They thought it was a real pandemic and knew damned well they couldn’t handle things.
And it won’t get better.
Manitoba’s health care budget is about $7.2 Billion for 2022. 7.2b / 1.3 m is about $5500 per person per year and about $22k / family of 4 per year.
With all that money in the system, MB’s system is about the most expensive and obtains the worst results. It has been this way for decades.
World leaders in mediocrity.
maybe it’s time for hospitals to take a few hundred thousand out of administration, and have a 30 foot tall billboard visible from the street with a time display:
at this hospital it is XX minutes wait to see a doctor.
/but that will never happen
At the (Catholic) hospital in Lewiston, NY (Niagara region, a stone’s-throw from the border), a few years ago when I lived near there there was a sign in the waiting room for x rays, MRIs, and other imaging that said that you should let them know (at the reception desk) if you had been waiting MORE THAN 15 MINUTES. I wouldn’t doubt it’s still there. They took It very seriously.
My mother was a nurse at a Catholic hospital where the care was excellent.
When the government forced it into public healthcare, the nuns who ran it locked the doors before they left as one last sign that they wouldn’t co-operate.
The quality of care, naturally, went downhill.
I live in Commiefornia. Wait times at the emergency room in my agricultural town town of 60,000 in the San Joaquin Valley, at our only hospital is hours. I don’t think it’s 22, but I bet it’s 4-6 or more.
Got a health problem? Commit a crime, get imprisoned, go to the front of the line at hospital-fact!
Canadian healthcare is not sustainable. In time it will all collapse.
Will collapse?
It already has.
Hence the amazing idiocy of the last two years.