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Review of Mackenzie Health

Whether you ask physicians or patients, the answer...

Whether you ask physicians or patients, the answer is the same Canada is failing to provide timely access to medical care.

The U.S.-based Commonwealth Fund, in conjunction with the Canadian Institute of Health Information, just published the results of their health policy survey of adults in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The results indicate that Canada is not just lagging, but is literally scraping the bottom when it comes to indicators of timely access to health care.

Here s a sample of our most spectacular failures:

Ability to get a same or next-day appointment when sick: worst
Ability to get after-hours care (without resorting to visiting an emergency department): second-worst
Wait for treatment in the emergency department: worst
Wait to see a specialist: worst
Wait for elective surgery: worst
Of course, the fact that Canadians face significant wait times for treatment will not surprise anyone familiar with the Fraser Institute s annual wait times survey. Last year physicians reported that their patients waited longer, on average, than they ever had in the survey s 26-year history. Importantly, they also reported that patients are waiting longer than what they (the physicians) consider to be clinically reasonable.
Mackenzi emergency is like war zone , don t even think to bring your patients here , average waiting is around 10 hours ,people sleep on the floor and Broken chairs , this is not the North American facility , staff are Pleasant and nice but they can t do much since there is no enough space for such population in Richmond Hill. , where the governments budget spend god knows , go look at other countries, this is embarrassing, people have donated millions of dollars to this hospital , they need emergency room to be three times bigger with new beds ,