In an Ontario emergency room, the average patient waited an hour and 54 minutes to see a doctor in April this year. According to Health Quality Ontario, wait times hit the 1.9 hour mark for the third time in the past 14 months. The figure climbed steadily each month since January 2022 when average wait times were 1.5 hours.
For patients that are considered “low urgency” who did not eventually require admission to, the average wait time was three hours. Patients considered “high-urgency” spent an average of 4.5 hours in hospital. 90 per cent of them completed their time in the ER within the provincially-mandated target of eight hours.
In Toronto, the highest average wait times in April were seen at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Patients waited three hours and eighteen minutes on average. Across the GTA, the worst wait times were seen at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital where patients waited an average of three hours and eighteen minutes.
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