Extra sufferers leaving HSC ER with out seeing physician: Shared Well being

Tons of of sufferers are strolling out of the Well being Sciences Centre (HSC)’s emergency room each month with out seeing a health care provider, in accordance with new statistics.

Shared Well being says greater than 30 per cent of sufferers who visited the ER in July left earlier than receiving remedy. Statistics present these numbers have been going up each month since spring.

A complete of 1,302 sufferers left in Could. In June that quantity went as much as 1,305, and the rise continued into July with 1,395 sufferers leaving the ER with out receiving remedy.

Darlene Jackson with the Manitoba Nurse’s Union says wait occasions are driving sufferers away because the system offers with employees shortages and backlogs. “We’re seeing wait occasions which can be skyrocketing,” stated Jackson. “There simply aren’t sufficient our bodies in well being care to handle all of our sufferers.”

HSC chief working officer Dr. Shawn Younger says the variety of individuals leaving with out being seen by a health care provider is regarding. “The staffing shortages alone have been a giant driver of why we will not transfer sufferers via the system very successfully,” he stated.

Younger provides that beds are filling up with admitted sufferers within the ER, inflicting a backlog. As properly, the system as an entire misplaced employees through the pandemic.

Younger says sufferers with non-emergency circumstances are nonetheless ending in up emergency rooms or pressing care hospitals, when they need to be going to entry centres, walk-in clinics or their very own physician as a substitute.

“We have to truly re-create or revisit what we’re doing with our care pathways,” stated Younger. “We will not hold sending individuals to emergency departments for care, we have now to be rather more strategic.”

Shared Well being says nurse recruitment and retention efforts are ongoing.