CHEO’s pediatric intensive care unit will permanently expand to 13 beds from its current seven-bed unit. The hospital critical care unit will permanently double in size, adding six beds to the existing six.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The surge has forced CHEO to open a temporary intensive care unit, which has mostly been filled with children under the age of two having difficulty breathing. Like other children’s hospitals, CHEO has also cancelled some surgeries and treatments, and continues to see long waits in its emergency department.
“We want to make sure that our pediatric hospitals, like CHEO, are right-sized to the needs of our growing population and continue to provide world-class critical care when families need it most. We are proud to be investing in CHEO to help double their pediatric and intensive critical care bed capacity,” Jones said in a statement.
Finally 👏👏👏more beds, now let’s do more staff. this has been an issue for decades!!! We’ve seen the debate go on for years about useless vaccines and masks…True healthcare reform is the answer
The real news story… There is no staff to operate the extra capacity. PICU2 is closed
There in no staff left to hire. Nice to have the beds. But, without staff to run the extra beds, it is no good.
About effing time they start doing something about this!!
Curious: what about staffing that expansion
They need to do this. We're about to flood Canada with 500,000 new people per year, each year...so a little bandaid is needed now for the hospitals so that they don't collapse just yet.
400,000 new people every year so maybe up the investment because as it is we are behind so of the 400000 make some Doctors and Medical because we need them
The government is Always reactionary to a broken healthcare system. It requires private dollar investment, a private option like O’Toole suggested last election. Unfortunately the left wing media said he wanted an American system, as if there’s only 2 possible healthcare options.
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