Toronto General Hospital has reached its intensive care capacity as healthcare institutions in Ontario continue to struggle with high patient volumes and staffing issues. The hospital is under a critical care bed alert, which means that its three intensive care units are “at their total bed capacity and/or have limited human resources to safely keep all physical critical care beds open and in operation.” The situation was brought on by multiple factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The story of a 24-year-old biology graduate who picked up and moved to the United States to pursue her dream of becoming a family doctor has renewed calls to reform a Canadian system that experts say isn't adequately responding to a critical need for these physicians. The University of Waterloo alumna had her eyes set on medical schools in Ontario, but after two application rounds and rejections from four separate schools, she decided to leave. Read the full story.
Tens of thousands of internationally educated nurses are currently sitting on the sidelines as hospital emergency rooms in Ontario are near the brink of closure due to staffing shortages. These nurses are being held back by a backlog of nursing registration applications in the province that has been growing for over a decade and has only escalated during the pandemic, according to a recent Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) report.
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With heat warnings being issued across much of Canada in recent days, first responders say they are concerned about their ability to respond to heat-related emergencies in a timely way amid health systems under the strain of staffing shortages. Ontario paramedics are concerned these problems could be further exacerbated, especially with people avoiding mitigation actions, like visiting a community cooling centre or taking kids to a splash pad, because of recent increases in COVID-19 activity.
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