MHA Wait Times
Several major health services are targeted by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's Wait Times Strategy (WTS). The Strategy is designed to increase access and reduce wait times for certain services, including significantly increasing the number of procedures to reduce the backlogs that have developed over the last decade. According to the Ministry, patients can use the Wait Times information reported on the Ministry web site system "to make informed choices about where to be referred for quicker service."
The provincial government's Wait Times strategy tracks the time it takes patients to receive service for six different health care services. The charts below show the MHA's Wait Times as compared to the provincial targets and provincial actual numbers for the targeted services that MHA offers including Emergency Department (ED) Wait Times.
Emergency Department (ED) Wait Times
The information seen here is collected by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care through a reporting system implemented in 128 hospitals across the province.
The information for "time spent in the ED" is the maximum time nine out of ten Ontarians spend in the ED and is measured from the time patients register or initially see a triage nurse (who assesses the level of urgency for treatment), until the time the patient leaves the ED (either to go home or to be admitted to the hospital).
*Please note that the ED information on this site is not real-time information and should not be used to assess the time you may spend in the ED today. If you believe you need immediate emergency care, please go to your nearest Emergency Department.
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Total Time Spent in Emergency Department (9 out of 10 patients) |
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Complex conditions/requiring more time for diagnosis, treatment or hospital bed admission |
Minor or uncomplicated conditions/requiring less time for diagnosis, treatment or observation |
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Provincial Target |
8 |
4 |
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Provincial |
11.3 |
4.5 |
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Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital |
6.6 |
4.6 |
(May 2010)
Cataract Surgery
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Provincial Target |
182 days |
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Provincial Wait Time |
117 days |
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MHA (SMGH) |
83 days |
Joint Replacement - Hips
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Provincial Target |
182 days |
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Provincial Wait Time |
169 days |
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MHA (SMGH) |
139 days |
Joint Replacement - Knees
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Provincial Target |
182 days |
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Provincial Wait Time |
183 days |
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MHA (SMGH) |
183 days |
Computerized Tomography (CT) Scan
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Provincial Target |
28 days |
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Provincial Wait Time |
42 days |
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MHA (SMGH) |
8 days |
General Surgery
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Provincial Target |
182 days |
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Provincial Wait Time |
104 days |
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MHA (SMGH) |
55 days |
(figures from March, April, May 2010)
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