December 21: Province says we are running out of room for COVID patients in hospitals but where have all the beds gone?
- Publication
- Kawartha411.ca, 21 Dec 2020
Description
- Creator
- VanMeer, Pamela, Reporter
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- Part of the Ontario Government's decision to implement a province-wide lockdown from December 26, 2020 to January 23, 2021 in Southern Ontario was the need to keep enough beds open in hospitals to care for COVID patients.
In April 2020, the provincial government had announced that it added more acute care and critical care beds to province-wide total. In October 2020, the provincial government provided additional funding to create more beds in 32 hospitals and alternate health facilities province-wide, all in additional to billions in funding provided in the government's fall preparedness plan.
This made an additional of 4203 additional hospital beds since the start of the pandemic with 910 COVID patients in hospital (as of December 21, 2020). Where did the beds go?
It came down to lack of technically-trained staff to man these additional hospital beds. - Publisher
- Pamela VanMeer
- Place of Publication
- Kawartha Lakes, ON
- Date of Original
- 21 Dec 2020
- Date Of Event
- 21 Dec 2020
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ford, Doug, Premier ; Elliott, Christine, Minister ; Lecce, Stephen, Minister ; Williams, David, Dr. ; Mohammad, Naveed, Dr. ; Yaffe, Barbara, Dr. ; McKenna, Vicki, RN
- Corporate Name(s)
- Southlake Regional Health Centre
- Language of Item
- English
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