This is a story which was relayed to myself yesterday afternoon late in the day...it's horrendous in my opinion as to what her 83 year old mother endure as well the stress of this experience on her daughter.
So please give it a read and if you feel it's worthy enough...please forward this to your friends and family as well.
Well... how shocking is this... My mom is in the TBRHSC right now. She was brought in yesterday at 3am via ambulance after a fall at her nursing home. FIRST... I had to fight to be allowed in emerg with her (she has advanced dementia and doesn't understand what is going on and is prone to get agitated when she is confused. Let alone she also cannot speak for herself for her medical care. I also have POA for her medical decision making. This should NEVER have been an issue. SECOND... while I was there fighting to be allowed to be with my mom there was another mom there with an older teen child..who also came via ambulance and was sitting in the emerg waiting room waiting to be seen. She had been there already for 4 hours with her daughter very ill and almost falling out of the transport chair she was sitting in.. This woman ended up leaving the hospital before I was allowed in the back with my mom... She told me she was taking her daughter home and would come back in the morning. This should not happen.. THIRD.. Once I was finally allowed in the back with my mom I cannot say anything bad about the care my mother received, the nursing staff and the drs were excellent (except that she spent almost 12 hours laying in the hallway of emerg with a broken hip) until she was finally moved to a room on the 3rd floor to wait for hip surgery. FOURTH.. I was hassled by security to stay with my mom (1st when I went to Robins to get a coffee since I had been there all night) The security guard was NOT going to let me back into the back of Emerg - I basically had to fight AGAIN to get to be with my mom.. Then I was approached again by security while sitting at the end of her bed IN THE HALLWAY and told I had to leave... UM NO.. I told him I had permission and he was arguing with me insisting that I leave.. Thank god the Charge Nurse came out from the desk and told him I had permission to be with my mom .. grr.. NO compassion from him AT ALL or a SORRY... FIFTH.. It is now almost 48 hours since my mom broke her hip and she STILL HAS NOT HAD HER SURGERY... she keeps getting bumped back. They told me she is now bumped until tomorrow.. and HOPEFULLY her surgery is tomorrow morning. She is 83 years old... in pain with a broken hip and because of her advanced dementia she doesn't understand what's going on and she is so confused. WOW our health care is great isn't it?? Waiting this long for surgery is UNACCEPTABLE... and then SIXTH.. back to the woman who left emerg after 4 hours waiting....while I was in the back with my mom it was hard to not notice how many drunks were sleeping it off taking up beds while others in the waiting room were waiting to be seen??? What the hell is wrong with this??? And before you trash me about the drunks....It was New Years Eve... YUP I heard it a number of times xxx is intoxicated and sleeping it off.... I watched the nurses try to get one guy up because he was released to go home... and because he was too intoxicated to walk or get dressed they laid him back down on the stretcher and moved him to the hallway to "sleep it off" for a few hours.... they woke him up at 7am and told him to "get dressed it is time to go home" and that he did??? What is wrong with our system?????
Here is the latest news on the situation over at...The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is experiencing a surge capacity crisis according to administration.
Read all about it by clicking on the web link below.
Click on the link below for additional interesting information.
I also upon reading the local news coverage about the hospital...composed and sent this short and to the point email message as shown below:
| from: | Jim Gamble thegambler54@gmail.com | ||
| to: |
ehoskins.mpp@liberal.ola.org,
kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org
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| cc: |
BillMauroTBayAtik <bmauro.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>,
mgravelle.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
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| date: | Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 6:18 PM | ||
| subject: | The current situation here in Thunder Bay's TBDRHSC...it's a literal nightmare.! | ||
| mailed-by: | gmail.comTo: Hon Eric Hoskins, MPP Minister of Health,Hon Kathleen O. Wynne, MPP, Liberal Party Leader,Bill Mauro MPP Thunder Bay,Michael Gravelle MPP Thunder Bay,
Good evening,
If your not aware of the situation here in the city regarding our hospital...please read this and comment on our current situation and what is the province going to do about this systemic province wide problem.!
Please click on the link below.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Gamble
Thunder Bay, Ontario
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