Staffing shortages are still a challenge but Sudbury hospital said it is slightly above the trend for catching up on surgery numbers
Sudbury's Health Sciences North hospital said it is making some progress with respect to easing the backlog of surgeries.
As the intensity of the COVID pandemic began to ease last year, hospitals across Ontario — including HSN — began taking steps to address the backlog of elective surgeries. Turnbull said HSN is doing better than most. "HSN is performing 92 per cent of surgical volumes compared to prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This performance is slightly better than provincial and Northern Ontario trends," he added"Our ability to get to 100 per cent of pre-pandemic volumes has continued to be impacted by bed capacity and staffing levels at the hospital, which is why we are also heavily focused on recruiting more health-care professionals to the organization.
"Despite staffing challenges, thanks to the great work of staff and physicians in the surgical program, HSN continues to make progress in addressing our surgical wait list which currently sits at 4,737 procedures as of April 20, 2023, compared to a peak of 5,347 in January 2023 and approximately 3,500 prior to the pandemic," he said.
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