![]() ![]() But the local emergency remains in place until there are no more code reds or blacks, Krauter said. In October there were a total of 629 minutes during which no ambulance was available. There has been some improvement since then, Krauter said. On one day preceding the declaration there were no ambulances available for almost three hours as 26 paramedic teams were delayed at hospitals. The County of Essex declared an emergency in the fall due to long offload delays and code reds and blacks. Jones’s spokesperson said the minister is working with health-care leaders in that region on “innovative solutions” to increase ambulance availability. ![]() “If we get some better urgent care, primary care, those code reds and blacks should come down,” he said. He ties that to the lack of availability of urgent care clinics and primary care during those hours, and has asked Jones to fund those services for extended hours. Some say it’s looking a bit better for 2023, but more needs to be done.Įssex-Windsor EMS Chief Bruce Krauter has been combing through his own region’s data, and found that from January to May, code blacks and code reds - when there were either no ambulances or one or two - tended to happen between 3 p.m. “Our government’s four-part strategy to tackle ambulance offload time issues is focused on: returning ambulances to communities faster, providing timely and appropriate care in the community, facilitating non-ambulance transportation for stable patients, and increasing health care worker capacity,” spokesperson Hannah Jensen wrote in a statement.īut several communities say offload delays and the lack of ambulance availability skyrocketed from 2021 to 2022. Jones has implemented and expanded various programs to address ambulance availability issues, from increasing funding for nurses to monitor ambulance patients so paramedics can get back on the road, to allowing paramedics to take patients somewhere other than an ER. Excuse me! Meet a man training do a 1,000-plus burpees in a single hour.Health Canada approves 1st RSV vaccine for older adults.FDA approves first postpartum depression pill in U.S.man speaks out after mom waits 4 hours on floor for ambulance ![]()
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