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A report shows the Thunder Bay district’s paramedic service is feeling the squeeze of rising call volumes.

Background: Previous studies have shown reductions in the volume of emergency department visits early in the COVID-19 pandemic, but few have evaluated the pandemic’s impact over time or stratified analyses by reason for visits. We aimed to quantify such changes in British Columbia, Canada, cumulatively and during prominent nadirs, and by reason for visit, age and acuity. Methods: We included data from the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System for 30 emergency departments across BC from January 2016 to December 2022. We fitted generalized additive models, accounting for seasonal and annua...

Along with bases in Feversham and Durham over the next couple of years, another four bases being recommended by staff include Ayton in 2026, Thornbury in 2027, Cobble Beach in 2028 and Holstein in 2029.

Akeem Scott's family is appealing a decision not to discipline the nurses who triaged him in the emergency room before he died. Scott was left unattended for hours at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital and died just hours after he left.

The family of a man who died after an hours-long wait in the ER at a Montreal hospital is calling for a review of a decision that cleared the nurses who saw him of any wrongdoing.