"At least foreseeable one or two years we will continue to actively recruit as many people as we possibly can."Ī spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the minister has been in regular communication with the Ottawa Hospital and met with Mayor Mark Sutcliffe in June to discuss offload delays in hospitals. "We are still short there are pockets of areas in the organization where we are continuously recruiting," Cameron Love, TOH President and CEO, said. The head of the Ottawa Hospital says they are still struggling with a staffing shortage.
All of those factors backup the emergency department, which backs up the paramedic service." "The backup in the emergency department is the result of the system backups its delays in surgeries, alternate levels of care in terms of retirement homes and nursing homes, and the lack of nursing staff. "It's easy to blame the hospitals, but I think it's much broader than that," Poirier said. Poirier says the offload delays are a healthcare system problem. "The little bit will help but we need a heck of a lot more." "The last part sounds like a negative, but $44 million across the province of Ontario is not a lot of money when it is spread over 100 hospitals," Poirier said. Poirier says the funding recognizes "the problem" with wait times being experienced in hospitals and "puts money towards it." The money will allow hospitals to increase capacity to help more patients and reduce the wait time for care. Poirier provided new statistics on 'Level Zero' events in Ottawa after the Ontario government announced $44 million in new funding to reduce wait times in emergency departments.
"That really is a sad status of where we're at in terms of the healthcare system." "Five years ago, we were concerned about 20 or 30 events at Level Zeros, now when we're in the hundreds, we don't think of it as bad as last year when there were 1,800," Poirier told Newstalk 580 CFRA's Ottawa Now with guest host Andrew Pinsent. Ottawa Paramedic Chief Pierre Poirier says we have "become numb" to the number of 'Level Zero' events in Ottawa. There were 750 'Level Zero' events in 2021, and more than 1,800 'Level Zero' events in 2022. There were no paramedics available to respond to emergency calls in Ottawa more than 700 times in the first half of 2023, as the Ottawa Paramedic Service continues to encounter lengthy offload delays in hospital emergency departments.Ī 'Level Zero' event is when there are no paramedics available to respond to emergency calls.
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