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A health-care staffing crisis and another wave of are pushing emergency departments across Canada to the brink, with wait times hitting new highs and several hospitals recently being forced to temporarily close their ERs.


The Canadian Press spoke with emergency physicians across the country who discussed what patients should consider before seeking emergency care and why, for some patients, the emergency room is still one of the only options available.

Data is divided into four categories: average wait time to first be assessed by a doctor in the ER, average length of stay in the ER for low-urgency patients who are not admitted, average length of stay in the ER for high-urgency patients who are not admitted, and average length of stay in the ER for patients who are admitted to hospital.

“Low-urgency” means complaints like a sore throat or vomiting, while “high-urgency” is defined as an issue like a heart attack or overdose.

Lakeridge Health Ajax had the fourth-longest wait time in the province for low-urgency patients who were not admitted to hospital at 5.2 hours and the eighth-longest wait time in the province for high-urgency patients who were not admitted to hospital at 6.3 hours.

Lakeridge Health Ajax was also the sixth-longest wait in Ontario for patients who were admitted to hospital from the ER, with an average of 37.6 hours.

Here’s a breakdown of ER wait times at five hospitals in Durham for May 2022.

Many Albertans are avoiding hospital emergency rooms due to increasing wait times and declining services.

A new survey by ThinkHQ Public Affairs found that 84% of Albertans said wait times were too long. Of those, 54% described the amount of time it takes to be seen by an emergency physician as “very long.”

Another 71% found that hospital timeliness has also declined since 2018.

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