{"id":3051,"date":"2015-06-17T15:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:26:11","slug":"ottawa-couple-speaks-out-against-hospital-cuts-after-48-hour-wait-in-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ottawa-couple-speaks-out-against-hospital-cuts-after-48-hour-wait-in-er\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa couple speaks out against hospital cuts after 48-hour wait in ER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(June 10, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>By Adam Feibel, Ottawa Citizen<\/p>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"l-main\">\n<article id=\"post-548353\" class=\"l-article post-548353 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-local-news tag-canadian-institute-for-health-information tag-emergency-medicine tag-hospital-wait-times tag-ontario-health-coalition tag-the-ottawa-hospital\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure id=\"post-548687media-548687\" class=\"align-none wp-caption post-img\" style=\"width: 473px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.ottawacitizen.com\/2015\/06\/nancy-parker-has-begun-campaigning-against-cuts-to-the-ottaw1.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all&amp;w=660&amp;h=495&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Nancy Parker is joining an Ontario Health Coalition protest Friday at MPP Bob Chiarelli's office because of the long delays her heart-patient husband has faced in gaining admission to hospital.\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Parker is joining an Ontario Health Coalition protest Friday at MPP Bob Chiarelli&#8217;s office because of the long delays her heart-patient husband has faced in gaining admission to hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>The\u00a0emergency room has become a familiar place for Lee Parker.<\/p>\n<p>A heart attack in November and subsequent complications have forced the 60-year-old Ottawa man into\u00a0early retirement from his career as a service technician and into a life of repeated\u00a0\u2014 and often lengthy\u00a0\u2014 visits to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The latest was in May, when he\u00a0arrived with his wife, Nancy, at The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Civic campus at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday. It was only at 4 a.m. after a series of tests\u00a0that he was told he would need to be admitted to the hospital, and it wasn\u2019t until early Thursday afternoon\u00a0\u2014 nearly 48 hours after\u00a0his arrival\u00a0\u2014 that he finally landed\u00a0in an in-patient bed.<\/p>\n<p>What was\u00a0worse, he said, was watching\u00a0other patients\u00a0\u2014 many of them\u00a0elderly\u00a0\u2014 waiting to be moved from gurney to hospital bed and full treatment. He even tried to offer his cot\u00a0to someone whose condition, he felt, might have been more serious, but was discouraged by nurses.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital says delays\u00a0in emergency are decreasing, and data\u00a0released Wednesday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information show that the average wait for a bed for an emergency patient admitted to The Ottawa Hospital\u00a0is slightly below\u00a0the provincial average.<\/p>\n<p>But to the Parkers, the delays and frustration they have witnessed look like\u00a0real-life effects of the provincial government\u2019s continued cuts to Ontario hospitals\u2019 operating budgets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wait time to get a bed blows me away, flabbergasts me, to be stuck in emergency that long,\u201d Lee Parker\u00a0said. \u201cParamedics were lining up and patients were still on their gurneys, and they didn\u2019t have any other beds to put them in. They were just waiting. It was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_548684\" class=\"wp-caption post-img aligncenter\" style=\"width: 553px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-548684 \" src=\"https:\/\/postmediaottawacitizen2.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/nancy-parker-has-begun-campaigning-against-cuts-to-the-ottaw.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Lee Parker has made frequent visits to the emergency department after suffering a heart attack in November.\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text wp-caption\">Lee Parker has made frequent visits to the emergency department since\u00a0suffering a heart attack in November.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nancy Parker, 56, said the experience with her husband\u00a0prompted her to begin campaigning on behalf of the Ontario Health Coalition, a provincial network of health-care activists. She said she\u2019ll join the group when it protests outside MPP Bob Chiarelli\u2019s office in Ottawa on Friday at noon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overcrowding has really been an issue,\u201d she said. \u201cWith the shortage of beds and staff, he ended up staying in the hospital longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, The Ottawa Hospital has announced two rounds of cuts to eliminate 122 full-time jobs as part of a $26-million cost-saving effort to balance its budget. Since 2012, when the province introduced an overhaul to health-care funding, the hospital has had to reduce costs by $99 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tierney, the hospital\u2019s vice-president of clinical programs, said that although emergency room <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/hospital-bed-emergency-wait-times-of-48-hours-still-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wait times<\/a> have seen \u201csteady improvement\u201d in the past few years, beds remain in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on the right track, but access to in-patient beds and emergency department wait times are still an issue, not just in Ottawa but across the province, across the country and in many parts of the world,\u201d Tierney said, noting that emergency department wait times are \u201ctightly linked\u201d to hospital occupancy, which at The Ottawa Hospital normally reaches 100 per cent or more.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals in Ontario are the least funded and have the fewest beds per capita of all provinces in Canada, according to the health coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cuts are just biting deeper and deeper every year, and at this point Ottawa is really the ground zero for the cuts across Ontario,\u201d said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hospitals cannot sustain any more cuts. In Ottawa, the evidence is very clear that the hospitals \u2026 need more beds and staff to relieve the crisis level of overcrowding they face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mehra said coalition members are targeting\u00a0Chiarelli on Friday\u00a0because they see him as \u201cthe most susceptible to public pressure\u201d among Ottawa MPPs, since he won by the narrowest margin in the 2014 election. The group has already held numerous protests to demand that Premier Kathleen Wynne stop the\u00a0cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Lee and Nancy Parker said the public doesn\u2019t show a strong enough reaction to the hospital cuts, partly because it doesn\u2019t have a direct effect on most people\u00a0\u2014 until something goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something I thought I\u2019d never see, especially in Ontario and in Canada,\u201d said Lee. \u201cIt\u2019s just a shame that there\u2019s not more public outcry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/ottawa-couple-speaks-out-against-hospital-cuts-after-48-hour-wait-in-er\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(June 10, 2015) By Adam Feibel, Ottawa Citizen Nancy Parker is joining an Ontario Health Coalition protest Friday at MPP Bob Chiarelli&#8217;s office because of the long delays her heart-patient husband has faced in gaining admission to hospital. 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