07-03-2015, 09:42 AM
(07-02-2015, 06:37 PM)panamaniac Wrote: It will be open from 1800hrs to 2300hrs and will be staffed by emergency room physicians. Anything to let one avoid emerg at Grand River seems a good thing.
ISTM an even better model would be to have such clinics located adjacent to or at least near existing hospitals and affiliated with them. That way people with non-critical issues who show up at Emerg can be sent "next door" rather than wait for hours (and hours and hours...) Likewise people who go to the clinic but are suspected of having more serious issues than the clinic can deal with can be routed quickly to Emerg.
Also:
1. Close proximity makes it much easier for the two facilities to share resources, be it doctors and nurses, diagnostic equipment and tests, etc.
2. Affiliation between facilities presumably better facilitates access to medical records without having to get a second set of consents, etc.
Why isn't this standard operating practice at hospitals across the province? (There must be a "good" reason because this makes too much common sense.)