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RSS FeedsMartin Regg Cohn: Hallway medicine is what ails Ontario´s hospital system
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14 december 2017 03:06:45

 
Martin Regg Cohn: Hallway medicine is what ails Ontario´s hospital system
(The Star Travel)
 


What ails Ontario health care today can be summed up in two words: Hallway medicine.Across the province, doctors and nurses are relying on hallways to handle the overflow from overcrowded patient wards. It’s no way to run a hospital and it’s no way to practice medicine.Health care isn’t just a health issue. It’s a political issue.The Ontario Hospital Association is clamouring, as one might expect, for help. In the practiced language of alarmist lobbyists, the OHA warned this week that the system is “on the brink” of yet another “capacity crisis.”To their credit, hospitals haven’t cried wolf in a while. In recent years the OHA had the good sense to acknowledge that more money should flow to longer-term care as a long-term solution.Their goal was to get so-called “bed blockers” out of the way — shifting them into affordable and effective chronic care, long-term care and home care as a way to free up far more costly acute-care beds. The Liberal government proclaimed a similar objective.But turning around a $54 billion health-care system is never easy — nor fast. When you’re rebalancing that many billions of dollars it’s easy to lose equilibrium — and momentum.Pent-up patient demand that took years to build up can’t be tamped down anytime soon, not after years of government restraint over health spending. Added to the mix is what looks like the worst season for influenza in recent memory, clogging local hospital beds (get your flu shot now!).The challenge is exacerbated in Brampton by a fast-growing population. But that excuse doesn’t hold in outlying communities, where populations are declining while aging, suggesting that even when the problem is more predictable it is no less intractable.Complaints on the hospital floor are finding an echo on the floor of the legislature. And will gain traction on the campaign trail in next spring’s election.Give Onta ...


 
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