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(January 30, 2020)<\/p>\n

By:\u00a0Catherine Whitnall, Kawartha Lakes This Week<\/p>\n

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Overcrowding at\u00a0Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay meant some patients landed in some \u201cunconventional spaces\u201d last month, officials say.<\/p>\n

\u201cA challenge is that we have to keep certain beds open,\u201d said Anne Overhoff, hospital vice-president, patient care and chief nursing officer, noting mental health beds are not equipped with oxygen and space must be available for intensive care and maternity patients.<\/p>\n

Christmas and influenza season tends to cause an increase in patients and the hospital does its best to prepare, but it \u201cwasn\u2019t enough this year,\u201d said Overhoff. All of the hospital\u2019s 16 extra beds have been occupied since the middle of December.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, it meant putting patients in unconventional spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Ontario hospital overcrowding data shows the majority of the province\u2019s hospitals have been operating at unsafe levels of overcrowding for more than a month out of the most recent six months measured.<\/p>\n

Since 2016, the Ross Memorial\u2019s medical\/surgical occupancy rate has been above 100 per cent \u2014 in 2018-19 it peaked at 112 per cent \u2014 and the total occupancy rate currently sits at 100 per cent.<\/p>\n

In July 2018, the hospital declared an internal Code Orange, a designation invoked when hospital operations are severely compromised by patient volume overcapacity, when patient volume hit 126 per cent.<\/p>\n

Patients preparing for discharge may find themselves in a hospital dining or lounge area. The emergency department has \u201chall spaces,\u201d assigned numbers and a nurse. There\u2019s no privacy, but every effort is made to ensure there is no risk to the patient.<\/p>\n

After the Code Orange, the hospital received funding from the Central East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) for 12 extra beds.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s not enough, especially with our Christmas surge and flu season,\u201d said Overhoff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The hospital is taking advantage of \u201cinnovative funded model\u201d opportunities. Eight patients utilizing alternate level of care beds \u2014 patients who no longer need hospital care and are waiting placement in more appropriate facilities, such as long-term care \u2014 were sent to Extendicare\u2019s Lakeland Village. A Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Services pilot project is helping reduce hospital \u201cbounce back\u201d through follow up house calls.<\/p>\n

The hospital\u2019s efforts are keeping the tide at bay, but it\u2019s only a matter of time before the levee breaks, officials there say.<\/p>\n

According to Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra, hospitals will remain flooded with patients until the province mops up the mess.<\/p>\n

\u201cFar from \u2018ending hallway medicine\u2019 the Ford government has adopted the same tired excuses and rhetoric to cover for cuts and downsizing as the previous government while the situation has measurably worsened,\u201d stated Mehra in a press release. \u201cThis is not a partisan issue. It is unsound public policy that has created a crisis in patient care that must be addressed urgently by reopening closed beds and wards, reopening operating rooms that are closed because there is not enough funding for them, and restore funding to improve care.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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