ERs

Hospital emergency departments are jammed up in much of the country even before the traditional flu season begins, raising concerns about the winter months ahead.In Montreal, for instance, ERs hovered at about 150 per cent capacity for much…

It's 6:30 a.m. and a section of the Emergency Department at Kingston General Hospital is closing for the day. The lights are out so patients can sleep, but one by one, they're woken up and told they are being moved. "Most likely, quite a…

An audience member, right, asked Eastern Health CEO Kenneth Baird, left, what the regional health authority is doing to improve conditions in emergency rooms. (Darrell Roberts/CBC)At Eastern Health's annual general meeting Thursday, a…

When Simon McNeil and his wife, Pam Han, moved to rural Prince Edward Island from Toronto in 2018, they were looking for somewhere a little quieter to live.They had no idea this decision would mean years of radio silence from the…

One of New Brunswick’s health authorities is asking people with non-life-threatening medical needs to not come to the Moncton Hospital and the Saint John Regional Hospital emergency departments. In a release, Horizon Health Network…

Berni Wood was in the throes of a COVID-19 infection and was struggling to breathe when she was told she would have to wait upwards of 20 hours in a Prince Edward Island emergency room to receive medical care.The Charlottetown…

Multiple emergency rooms in Newfoundland and Labrador are temporarily closing this week as they face a shortage of healthcare workers, according to statements from local public health authorities. Eastern Health was the latest to…

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When Morgan Lanigan’s wife, Kelly, began feeling some intense pain, they headed for the hospital emergency department in Saint John, N.B. The first stop was St. Joseph’s Hospital but when they got there at around 7 p.m. on July 17,…

As Sarah McLeod's asthmatic son struggled to breathe on a recent trip to the emergency room in Calgary, she looked up at the board to see a 10-hour wait time standing between her son and the care he needed. When she came in, her son was…