COVID-19 patients in the hospital are dropping, he still figures it could be months before the facility will be able to return to pre-pandemic surgical volumes.Dr.
Craig Ainsworth, director of the cardiac care unit at Hamilton General Hospital, told 900 CHML’s Hamilton Today that Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is still only operating at 50 to 60 per cent of surgical activity levels which will delay some non-urgent and non-emergent services.“It would be silly for me to say we’ll be back at 100 per cent by tomorrow or next week, but we’re trying very hard to get to get there as fast as we can, but it’s likely going to be months,” said Ainsworth. ‘Everyone’s done with this,’ Doug Ford says as he speaks of lifting proof of vax requirement As of Wednesday, Hamilton’s hospital networks have a combined 100 COVID patients with 15 in ICUs, a marked improvement from a week ago when hospitalizations were 178 with 24 in city ICUs.In mid-January, HHS and St.
Joseph’s had a total of 300 patients and 38 in ICUs.HHS’ adult ICU occupancy is at 82 per cent as of Feb. 16 while St. Joe’s is at 102.St.
Joe’s is the only one of the two networks with ongoing outbreaks as of Tuesday. The surge is at the Womankind addiction facility and involves just four patients.Ontario reported 1,403 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Feb.