Hospital offload times at Brantford General Hospital (BGH) are currently one of the worst in the province, with an average delay of 80 minutes, members of the paramedic services committee heard on Tuesday morning. “Things have deteriorated to some extent since our last report,” Russell King, chief of paramedic services for Brant-Brantford told the committee. Offload times — the time it takes to transfer a patient arriving by ambulance into the hospital’s care — have been an ongoing challenge. Contributing factors include the influx of new residents in the region, an aging population, and the lack of primary care and urgent care options in the community, a report shared with the committee showed. Persistent staffing challenges at the hospital, combined with systemic challenges such as aging infrastructure and inadequate bed…
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