But some health care advocates warn that finding enough of the specially trained nurses and doctors needed to operate enough extra critical-care beds could be difficult and would mean redeploying staff and cancelling even more non-COVID-19-related operations and procedures.The Premier, speaking from inside Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital – the first added hospital in Ontario for 30 years – said when the new facility opens Feb.
The government could not say how many of the new beds would be fully equipped for critical care – or when they would be up and running. The new hospital will be operated by Mackenzie Health, which also operates an existing hospital in nearby Richmond Hill, and will accept both critical and non-critical patients transferred from other hospitals to ease pressures during the pandemic. It will not exclusively treat those with COVID-19, but will also admit those without the virus whose transfer frees up resources in a facility hard-hit by the pandemic. The new hospital will open as usual once the pandemic pressures stabilize, Ms.
Michael Warner, head of critical care at Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital, said it is hard to say what the impact of the beds will be without knowing how many fully equipped ICU beds are being created, or whether enough qualified doctors and nurses can be redeployed to staff them. But he praised the use of the Vaughan hospital to relieve hospitals across the GTA.
RNAO But it's the biggest we have. How many nights do you need to hide with room service?
More proof Ford's idiotic lockdown is a scam
The fact that hospitals have the beds but choose not to use them has always been an incredible concept. To make news about opening unused beds is just pathetic.
Why?
Long overdue. Sad that it took a pandemic to push this forward
There were 1400 ICU beds available in April. What happened to them? There are less that 200 now?
fckn bullshit photo op....don't they NEED that damn bed?
Excellent move to use the brand new hospital opening in Vaughan in February to care for Covid Patients. Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏fordnation
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