Hospital crowding getting worse across province, report shows

Ontario’s health watchdog has confirmed what those who work in or have visited a hospital in recent months know all too well: Hallway medicine is getting worse.
A just-released report from Health Quality Ontario entitled Measuring Up 2018, found that the province is seeing its highest ever level of hospital beds being used by patients waiting for care elsewhere.
Those patients, in what’s known as alternate level of care for whom more appropriate care is not available, are a major fac