Long SAH patient stays make ‘significant impact’: Official

Average length of patient stays at Sault Area Hospital could be sliced significantly if highest-end numbers could be cut, SAH’s board of directors heard.
The average stay rings in at 11.6 days, but some patients are logging more than 250 days at the city’s prime health-care facility.
“And that makes a significant impact,” said director Bill Kerr, delivering the Resources Committee chair’s report.
“If you take those people out of the equation, our length of sta