emergency room

Online/New Media by rochekellyNovember 20, 2014December 1, 2014

Health report finds access to care an issue

Nearly all of Eastern Ontario residents have a primary care provider, but less than half can access care the same or next day, according to a report released Thursday. That puts us lower than the provincial average of 60%. Measuring Up, the annual report from Health Quality Ontario, found province-wide, slightly more than half of […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyMarch 2, 2011August 4, 2011

Area hospitals bursting at the seams

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/02/17471341.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/02/pf-17470581.html Acute-care beds at area hospitals are increasingly unavailable, making for cancelled surgeries and longer emergency room wait times. That’s because an alarming number of seniors are using them who should be in long-term care. Currently about 3,300 people in the Champlain region are waiting for long-term care beds at home and in […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyFebruary 4, 2011August 4, 2011

Girl thanks paramedics who saved her life

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/04/17162976.html#/news/ottawa/2011/02/04/pf-17159356.html The last time Patrick Auger, Marcie Beaudoin, and John Holbrook saw seven-year-old Victoria “Tori” Wilson, she was unconscious and barely alive. When they were reunited with her Friday morning, they fittingly hung out in an ambulance — where they first met. The Ornge critical care flight paramedics helped save Tori after she […]