Patient hotels: an established transitional solution to overcrowding

Patient hospitals have worked in Europe, and should be adopted in Canada, writes Shawn Whatley.

With hotels having thousands of empty beds that could be used at a tiny marginal cost compared with building new LTC homes, patient hotels seem an obvious and well-supported solution to our current crisis.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY SHAWN WHATLEY

February 3, 2020

Ontario has run out of space to care for patients. Even without a novel coronavirus threatening to crush health care, Ontario needs a quick, low-cost solution to transition patients out of hospitals. Fortunately, other countries worked this out decades ago, all within publicly funded s...

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