A sign directing visitors to the emergency department is shown at CHEO, Friday, May 15, 2015 in Ottawa. Ontario has asked thousands of family health-care workers to work evenings and weekends to help ease the burden on overwhelmed children’s hospitals.
Canada needs a bold vision for the future of our health care. Amidst an ongoing staffing crisis, the cracks in our public health care systems have only grown deeper and wider, with too many going without the care they need when they need it. These cracks are symptoms of an incomplete health care system. I first noticed it when I was nursing at the bedside: patients ending up in the emergency room with dire illnesses that could have been prevented if they had a primary care provider monitoring early symptoms. I know for nurses and health care workers across the country, this experience is all too familiar.
Now COVID-19 has laid bare the shameful state of seniors’ care, particularly in for-profit long-term care homes who were found to have lower staffing levels, less care hours delivered to residents, and consequently higher mortality rates.
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