The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is focusing on ER wait time reductions at the Chatham campus.
At the hospital’s board meeting this week ER wait times were ranked against 74 hospitals across the province.
The local ER got good ranking for people that require admission to hospital and time to transfer to an in-patient bed from – Maintaining excellent status of 3rd place of 74 hospitals in both categories.
The CKHA was middle of the pack for people who were discharged ranking 40th and 33rd for complex and less complex releases.
Where the local hospital falls behind is the time from triage to first contact with a doctor or nurse.
Ranking 66th out of 74, which is a seven place improvement from a year ago.
