“You can see that sort of bottleneck creates a ripple effect through the system because the extended stays in acute care then delay patients from being able to be moved into those acute care beds, which then means they’re staying in the emergency department … which limits the capacity of emergency departments to be able to care for new patients who are coming in . . . Then you see longer wait times across the board.” said Cheryl Chui, the director of health system analytics for the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which reports that patients who could be discharged to rehab centres, long-term care homes or home care end up waiting an average of 24 days in hospital inpatient units, The Canadian Press; Toronto Today June 25 2026
Backlogs in long-term care, home care driving up ER wait times: report – TorontoToday.ca
