guy30 Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 Just read this article and thought it was quite shocking for a Quebec hospital to get this label from both the coroner and Quebec's health watchdog. Anyone ever rotate through Gatineau hospital? I wonder if it's a manning issue in their emergency department. "Gatineau Hospital among worst in western world for ER care, report finds Man with ALS waited more than 10 hours to see a doctor for fractured collar bone" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/gatineau-hospital-coroners-report-1.3736927 (edit to fix link) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amichel Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 Just read this article and thought it was quite shocking for a Quebec hospital to get this label from both the coroner and Quebec's health watchdog. Anyone ever rotate through Gatineau hospital? I wonder if it's a manning issue in their emergency department. "Gatineau Hospital among worst in western world for ER care, report finds Man with ALS waited more than 10 hours to see a doctor for fractured collar bone" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/gatineau-hospital-coroners-report-1.3736927 Don't have time to read the article right now but that quote is kind of ridiculous. It sucks that he has ALS but fractured collarbones (considering we do nothing for them anyways) are not exactly at the top of the triage list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy30 Posted August 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Don't have time to read the article right now but that quote is kind of ridiculous. It sucks that he has ALS but fractured collarbones (considering we do nothing for them anyways) are not exactly at the top of the triage list. Yeah agreed that a fractured collarbone alone would not merit urgent attention. Apparently the label of being the worst hospital in the western world was based on a host of other factors though. "A report on the hospital by Quebec's health watchdog unrelated to the coroner's report said it underperforms compared to other Quebec hospitals, which that same watchdog ranks as the worst in Canada and the western world. The health watchdog report gave the Gatineau Hospital a D- for emergency care. And since no other hospital in Quebec has ever received a D- score before, "we are forced to conclude that the statistics indicate that this hospital is among the worst in the western world for health care possible," the watchdog's report concludes in French. That comment was then echoed in the coroner's report into Gauthier's death." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arztin Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 This article is kind of ridiculous. Calling it a bad hospital because someone had a fracture and had to wait? Now it would be a different story if the patient was unstable... However, yes, Gatineau and Hull hospitals year after year have the worst waiting times in the whole province. For OP, yes people rotate there, both clerks and residents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestar10 Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3750029?client=safari New satellite campus for McGill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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