Here’s a prescription for emergency room overcrowding

Increase the number of complex care and assisted living beds. Appropriate patients should be directed to these beds and away from those in the emergency room.

Fifty two per cent of Canadians agree that our health-care system is broken and needs to undergo fundamental change if it is going to meet our needs in the future. One essential change must be reducing the back-logs in Canadian emergency rooms.

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