Burlington Joseph Brant Hospital better than average when it comes to ER wait times

No matter how you look at it, Burlington’s Joseph Brant Hospital does better than average when it comes to patient wait times in the emergency department.

The news for all the province’s hospitals was revealed in a Health Quality Ontario report released recently.

The organization measured how long patients spent in emergency departments at various stages and depending on their condition.

In every metric, JBH patients spent less time waiting than average, sometimes by several hours.

The average time patients wait for their first assessment by a doctor in Ontario is 1.9 hours. At JBH, it’s 1.3 hours.

For low-urgency patients who don’t end up being admitted, the average stay is 2.4 hours, below the provincial average of three hours, and 90 per cent finished their emergency visit within the target time of four hours.

For patients who do end up being admitted, the average stay in emergency is 11.9 hours, well below the provincial average of 20 hours. Only 53 per cent, however, met the target time of eight hours.