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Canada's wait time on emergency services was the longest of the 11 nations, with 29% of Canadians reporting that they waited for more than four hours the last time they went to an emergency department. Canada also had the longest wait time for specialist appointments, with 56% of all Canadians waiting for more than four weeks.
In a 2009 survey of physician appointment wait times in the United States, the average wait time for an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon in the country as a whole was 17 days. In Dallas, Texas the wait was 45 days (the longest wait being 365 days). Nationwide across the U.S. the average wait time to see a family doctor was 20 days.
An area of focus for SecondStreet.org has been healthcare wait-times. [14] A study that used data from provincial governments and the Canadian Medical Association Journal showed 353,913 surgeries, procedures, and specialist consultations were postponed across Canada due to COVID-19 in the first few months of the pandemic. [ 3 ]
Wait times for vehicles at popular border crossings can sometimes be excessive on either side of the border. It is recommended that the estimated wait time be checked in advance of travel. These are provided by both the CBSA [33] and the CBP. [34] Both the U.S. and Canadian governments urge frequent travelers to join the NEXUS trusted traveler ...
Alberta Health Services has been organized so as to separate acute hospital facilities (with separate reporting lines for major tertiary, metropolitan and regional hospitals) from smaller hospitals and community services, the latter of which are organized into five zones (North, Edmonton, Central, Calgary and South).
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada is the institute's annual report on hospital waiting times in Canada, based on a nationwide survey of physicians and health care practitioners. The twentieth annual survey, released December 2010, found that the total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and delivery ...
The provincial government announced on December 5, 2022 that the public Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) was going to be replaced by the private, for-profit Dynalife in providing community lab services in Alberta's large municipalities. By early January 2023, wait times had increased for blood tests that used to be routine and rapid.
McCaig who had died in 2005 was the founder of Alberta Bone & Joint Health Institute. [18] 2010 C$460M 8-storey tower, JR (Bud) McCaig Tower. JR (Bud) McCaig Tower adds to largest hospital of province Alberta: [19] 8 operating rooms 36-bed intensive care unit (only 26 beds funded) 93 inpatient beds 21 short-stay beds Diagnostic imaging