{"id":8491,"date":"2017-12-04T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T23:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T23:47:55","slug":"liberals-and-pcs-offer-no-hope-for-thunder-bay-hospital-overcrowding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/liberals-and-pcs-offer-no-hope-for-thunder-bay-hospital-overcrowding-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals and PCs offer no hope for Thunder Bay Hospital overcrowding crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was in Thunder Bay Monday to commit to tackling the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis that\u2019s wreaking havoc on patient care in Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n

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NDP candidates John Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Atikokan) and Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay-Superior North) joined Horwath in front of the Thunder Bay Hospital. From April 1 to Aug. 31, the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre was in gridlock 90 percent of the time, a sharp increase from 20 percent gridlock during the same period last year. At times in November, the hospital built for 375 patients was 50-patients overcapacity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople who count on the Thunder Bay Hospital are facing gridlock the majority of the time,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cThose who arrive in need of help are waiting too long, only to be eventually moved onto a stretcher in a hallway.\u00a0Their wait times, their dignity, their recovery and even their health are compromised. It\u2019s not acceptable to families, and it\u2019s not acceptable to me.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut, it doesn\u2019t have to be this way. I will make health care a priority again, funding hospitals at or above inflation, and really recognizing the unique needs of communities like Thunder Bay. A plan that offers hope is one that recognizes our families\u2019 health comes first, and guarantees that care will be there when we need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kathleen Wynne has starved hospitals with funding freezes and cuts, including shortchanging them by another $300 million this year. Before Wynne, the Conservative government gutted hospitals by firing 6,000 nurses, closing more than 7,000 beds and shuttering 28 hospitals.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHospital overcrowding is the concern I hear about most often in the community,\u201d said Vaugeois. \u201cEven hospital administrators have said this year has been really tough \u2013 and we haven\u2019t even hit flu season yet. Kathleen Wynne has let us down here in Thunder Bay. And for the millions of Ontarians eager for change, it\u2019s becoming clear that Patrick Brown isn\u2019t the answer. His plans for deep cuts have folks worried, and I don\u2019t blame them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brown\u2019s platform vows to cut $6.1 billion in jobs and services \u2013 but he won\u2019t tell Ontarians what he\u2019s planning to cut.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThousands of nurses being fired, or fewer hospitals in the north, is the last thing we need,\u201d said Rafferty. \u201cInstead of cutting hospital budgets, Andrea wants to end hallway medicine in our province and I\u2019m with her all the way. The solution to our overcrowding crisis is a premier that\u2019s committed to making sure that when our families rush to the ER in need of the best care, we\u2019re going to get it.”<\/p>\n

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Dec 4, 2017 @ 18:44 Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was in Thunder Bay Monday to commit to tackling the hospital overcrowding and hallway medicine crisis that\u2019s wreaking havoc on patient care in Thunder Bay.   NDP candidates John Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Atikokan) and Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay-Superior North) joined Horwath in front of the Thunder …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1059],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-healthcare-overcrowding"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:06:09","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\/8491","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}