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Reports of high average wait times at hospital emergency rooms across the country were punctuated by CTV News medical correspondent Avis Favaro's latest story focusing on the dire consequences long wait times at crowded ERs can have on patients.

In light of studies showing patients admitted to ERs are waiting longer to get into an acute care bed, CTVNews.ca has collected wait time data over a recent time period from a selection of hospitals in cities across Canada, to give you a snapshot of the wait times Canadians are dealing with.

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[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting decisions on which hospitals to highlight. They list the Jewish General for Montreal, but not the Royal Victoria with its 6 hour average wait time.

[-] yads@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

It's definitely strange considering for Alberta they are showing every hospital in Calgary and Edmonton

[-] mymanchris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It's due to the capabilities of the wait times reporting system. Alberta has integrated reporting on all acute care sites, updated every 2 minutes, due to having a single organization (AHS) overseeing the IT and reporting infrastructure of every hospital in the province.

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