{"id":10918,"date":"2018-03-05T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=10918"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:43:43","slug":"gelinas-cheo-overcrowding-hurts-ontario-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/gelinas-cheo-overcrowding-hurts-ontario-families\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00e9linas: CHEO overcrowding hurts Ontario families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mar 5, 2018 @ 14:41<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>NDP Health critic MPP France G\u00e9linas again took Kathleen Wynne\u2019s Liberal government to task this morning about the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis \u2013 this time taking aim at the capacity issues at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week CHEO announced historic overcrowding, saying that the hospital ran over 100 per cent capacity in January and February of this year and that so far in 2018, it has been forced to turn away or transfer 15 children, including 4 babies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHEO\u2019s Chief of Staff said that it\u2019s often the sickest kids who are forced to move because of the overcrowding crisis,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine being a new mom and hearing the news that my child is sick, let alone being told that one of the only two hospitals in Ontario that specializes in treating children doesn\u2019t have the space to care for my baby.\u00a0 It\u2019s devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February, CHEO\u2019s emergency department had its busiest month on record. Every day, the hospital saw 249 children in the ER. One day their front-line professionals cared for 303 sick children. CHEO\u2019s Chief of Emergency Medicine said the hospital was at peak staffing, but despite that, they are overwhelmed. CHEO is certainly not the only hospital in Ontario or even in Ottawa that has struggled with overcrowding. Last month, the Queensway Carleton Hospital declared a \u201cCode Orange\u201d \u2014 an alert issued when all hospital beds are fill and all surge capacity exhausted. This was only the second code orange in the hospital\u2019s history. The other one was also issued in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis problem is bigger than a bad flu season,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cIt\u2019s a function of decades of cuts by both the Conservatives and this Liberal government \u2013 which has had 15 years to tackle this crisis and instead, has made it worse with budget cuts and freezes, including short-changing hospitals by $300 million in this year\u2019s provincial budget. We need to do better for families in Ottawa, we need to do better for children across Ontario. We need change for the better in our hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Horwath has been clear on her plan to end the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis. She\u2019s committed to making health care a priority \u2013 tackling hallway medicine and long waits in health care with funding that, at a minimum, keeps up with inflation, population growth and the unique needs of each community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 5, 2018 @ 14:41 NDP Health critic MPP France G\u00e9linas again took Kathleen Wynne\u2019s Liberal government to task this morning about the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1059],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-healthcare-overcrowding"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10919,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions\/10919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}