Average wait times for patients being admitted to an Ontario hospital from an emergency room improved slightly in November after hitting a record high.
Average wait times for patients being admitted to an Ontario hospital from an emergency room dropped slightly in November after hitting a record high.
According to the data, just 23 per cent of patients were admitted to hospital from the ER within the provincial target time of eight hours. Another Ontario man said he waited about 24 hours for treatment of injuries caused by a car crash, while a patient who spent 45 days in a coma and required heart surgery saw his procedure cancelled due to lack of beds.On average, patients waited about two hours on average for a first assessment in the emergency room in November.
“At best this is a rounding error,” he said. “We're just looking at an average, and an average only captures just a very small part of the picture.”
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