The Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia will rent motel rooms at Surrey Memorial Hospital for patients who no longer need urgent care but are not yet able to return home. In this way, she hopes to reduce the overcrowding that has plagued the hospital for months and that has been complained about by many doctors, among others.
The motel George Point InnThe hospital, located in the same block as the hospital, can accommodate 53 people from Monday, the Régie announced in a press release.
This unique transitional living environment will allow eligible vulnerable patients to benefit from continuity of care when they no longer require hospital services and keep them connected to the health support services they need
writes the Minister of Health, Adrian Dix.
The health authority of Fraser stipulates that staff provide support to motel patients Around the clock
especially from psychosocial support
, medication management and rehabilitation. Patients should stay there a few weeks
before returning home or finding alternative accommodation.
The health authority initially refused to provide further details about this temporary accommodation, but made it public a few hours after an article was published by CBC on this topic, Wednesday morning.
Bandages on broken bones
Claudine Storness BlissObstetrician-gynecologist and co-head of the department at the hospital Surrey Memorial, believes these shelters can be useful if they can free up beds. However, she believes it will be difficult to determine which patients stay and which patients are transferred.
The doctor was among those who in May denounced a lack of resources at the hospital that they said was putting patient safety at risk.
Do I think this is a long term solution? Certainly not. But we don’t have enough beds to accommodate everyone
She said.
Accordingly Claudine Storness-Bliss, Very clear guidelines for decision-making need to be put in place and more generally the system as a whole needs to be reviewed.
We must stop binding broken bones.
Health policy researcher and doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University, Andrew Longhurst also believes that this temporary accommodation may provide a short-term solution, but does not address the root causes of hospital overcrowding.
I find it deeply disturbing
he explains. Provincial health systems across the country are in deep trouble. Yet there seems to be a lack of leadership and people willing to discuss how we are trying to reduce the burden on healthcare.
The health authority of Fraser is not the only one in the country who has adopted this strategy. Transition centers are a growing trend in Ontario and are also emerging in Nova Scotia.
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