Ontario will announce a plan for “health system stability and recovery” this week, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Wednesday, revealing that one part will be to expand a program that allows paramedics to avoid taking patients to the ER on every call.
“We can no longer stand by and support a status quo that cannot respond to the current challenges the sector is facing,” she said. Initial results show patients are accessing care 17 times more quickly and 94 per cent didn’t go to the ER in the few days following care, Jones said. An announcement set for Thursday by Jones, Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra and Ontario Health president and CEO Matthew Anderson is being billed as a new phase of the province’s “Plan to Stay Open.
I hope these paramedics have large liability insurance coverage and top notch self defence skills. With unmonitored at home treatments and increased patient & family frustration... they're going to need both. onpoli
Should this lede be less certain about the benefits of such a policy? As in, that the Ontario government *thinks* will improve…
That’s not the critical issue presently. Perhaps it will help? Where are the non-ER based mental health crisis centres in Ontario? onpoli
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