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Some of Ontario’s biggest hospitals are filled beyond capacity nearly every day, new data reveals
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
On any day, one out of six hospital beds is occupied by a patient who doesn’t need to be in hospital, but cannot be safely discharged home. This is a long-running phenomenon in health systems across Canada known as “alternate level of care” (ALC). Lengthy waits for long-term care spaces are the chief cause, but a lack of available home care and other forms of continuing care also contributes.
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