Doctors Say Hallway Patients Not New
Physicians and other staff say the problem of overcrowding has been an ongoing issue for many years and this most certainly is not the first instance where patients have been accommodated in the hallways of the facility.
Questioned as to whether anyone has died in hallways, a spokesperson for the hospital says when you have people coming in, in an emergency situation in many cases their lives are in danger.
Meantime, McMillan says “by and large we are squeezing people into places that are designed for patient care, but there are some patients occasionally, where we really hit the maximum, where we are forced to house patients in the hallways.”
Northern Health is embarking on a Master Plan for the hospital, assessing the future needs of the region, and the services that will be provided in years to come. That kind of planning is necessary to identify whether there is a case to support expanding the facility through a major capital project.
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And how much money is this Northern Health Chief Operating Officer getting paid to come to this out of touch conclusion??!?! What a mess this world is coming to!
2012/13 Fiscal Year Northern Health Authority MCMILLAN, MICHAEL COO – NI $222,818
The numbers for 2013 are in the public domain.
(from the Vancouver Sun listing of public service salaries).
Obviously, this person hasn’t been in Prince George for very long!! This problem goes back for decades with the hospital. “First time ever”; makes me laugh!! He should check the history, before opening his mouth and sticking foot in it.
In 2008 I had kidney stones, I spent 2 days in the hallway in emergency. My sister in law just had an operation and there where patients in the hall way when we went to visit her. Anyone who claims this is new and is in charge needs to find a new line of work as they have no clue what’s happening in their own back yard.
C’mon Mikey, tell everyone how embarrassed you are, and apologize for your
foolish comment. Be human.
Northern Health should be looking to reduce its own bloated administration, even though it’s probably one of PG’s biggest employers. There would be plenty left over for patient care.
JB. It would be nice to see northern healths org chart.. Just to see how bloated it is.
Not much value for that 200, plus thousand. Where is his office? Has he even been in the hospital?
They don’t plan very well do they? For example, they open up the cancer center which brings in people from all over Central and Northern BC; where did they think these patients were going to stay?
@axman;
I believe that most, if not all, cancer patients stay at the Kordyban Lodge.
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 @ 10:41 AM by mama t
@axman;
I believe that most, if not all, cancer patients stay at the Kordyban Lodge.
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If you need to be medically supervised, you’re in the hospital. The lodge is for out of town people who can get up and walk after their treatment.
I don’t know what percentage of patients would have to stay at the hospital, but not all cancer patients are debilitated after treatments. Weakness and nausea are the most common side effects that would keep a patient bed-ridden, but not necessarily in the hospital.
Most people would prefer to be at home, comfortable, in their own beds.
Sounds like McMillan is trying to make a case for a Capital Project at the Hospital.
As I said before . This Hospital needs a serious audit, to determine just how much space they have, how much they need, and when they need it, keeping in mind the changing demographics of the Greater Prince George Area.
Palopu: Greater Prince George Area as no bearing on the hospital, that’s why it was actually called Prince George Regional Hospital (PGRH) before some idiot thought it would be a good teaching** hospital (**which it isn’t by it’s current nature). The hospital at UBC isn’t over crowded because it’s operated correctly with correct triage and proper staffing levels. Any time you have “CHIEF” before any other useless words denoting a title of importance be ready to be baffled by the Bull spewing from the oral orifice. Paid to spin and divert attention from obvious issues.
McMillan is a veteran CEO, you can tell by the obfuscation.
He’s been in that position for over ten years, by my recollection.
I’m not an authority on the subject, but he does not seem to be very effective, sorry.
I’m pleased that some doctors had the courage to speak up over the glaringly obvious inaccuracies spoken by McMillan during the interview.
Northern Health is a classic example of a top heavy corporation.
They will spend millions trying to work out ways to operate with fewer workers, but their concentration is out of focus, they do not seem to notice that there is one hell of a lot of overhead in middle management/administrators and probably hundreds of thousands of square metres of rented or leased office space in Prince George alone.
And how many administrators have a company car I wonder?
Note to Northern Health:
Your mandate is the health of the people who rely on your services.
metalman.
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