Patient dies while waiting for care in ER at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre
A patient died while waiting eight hours for care at Health Sciences Centre’s emergency department in Winnipeg Tuesday morning.
The hospital is investigating the death, a Shared Health spokesperson told CBC News. Shared Health co-ordinates health-care delivery in the province and is responsible for operations at HSC.
Dr. Shawn Young, chief operating officer of the Health Sciences Centre, said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon a middle-aged man was brought to the emergency room by ambulance shortly after midnight.
Just before 8 a.m., staff noticed his condition had significantly worsened. He was taken to a resuscitation room and declared dead shortly after.
Young said there was initial triage and that the patient was reassessed afterwards, but the hospital will be reviewing those protocols as part of its investigation.
The man was a low-acuity patient and would have had to wait about 10 hours or longer before being seen, according to Young. About 100 patients were in the emergency department through the night.
‘We did have a number of high-acuity patients at that time,” he said, adding that the hospital’s six resuscitation beds were also taken that night.
“When we see cold weather like this, we do have a number of patients that come in seeking shelter and safety as well, and that was a factor … in the waiting room as well.”
Whole system ‘backed up’: COO
In November, the last month for which data is publicly available, HSC reported a median wait of 3.8 hours at its emergency department. One in 10 patients waited more than 13 hours for care that month.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, the posted wait time at HSC’s emergency department was 8.25 hours, according to data from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
Shared Health said there were about 50 patients in the waiting room as of Tuesday morning.
Young said while the emergency department was well over capacity early Tuesday, the numbers are not completely abnormal. Staffing was close to a baseline level of between 24 and 25 nurses, with about 21 working at the time, and was not a factor, he said.
“We were really struggling with throughput out of the hospital over the last 24 hours,” he said.
“We were not able to get [patients] into beds in the facility because the patients within HSC that we need to get out, we’ve not been able to successfully get them back out to their communities or their residence in a timely manner.
“So the whole health system was a bit backed up.”
Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said the province is in discussions with those involved on how to prevent similar deaths in the future.
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