The senior leadership team with the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) are happy with the hospital’s recent emergency room performance scores.
Lori Marshall, president and CEO for the CKHA, said the CKHA recently received the end of July results for the Emergency Department Pay-for-Performance program for the 73 hospitals across the province.
“For the first time in at least the last three years, that’s a far back as the graph goes that I can see, we have moved into the top one third of those hospitals,” Marshall said, during a meeting last week with the local media.
“So we are now ranked at 24. So on the provincial score card, we actually turned green as opposed to yellow or red.
Marshall said the Chatham ER was ranked 54th at the end of March 2017.
The ER in Wallaceburg is not included in the survey due to its small size.
“What that is, is a composite of all of our wait times in the ER,” Marshall said.
“That includes the physician initial assessment time. Sh that has been the area that there has been a major change, I would say as a result of physicians changing their schedules. It also includes the wait times going from the emergency department, to a bed, or admitted. So we are definitely seeing a very positive trend there.”
During the meeting with the media last week, senior CKHA staff also discussed some new services in the works at the Sydenham Campus.
Check out that story, here: Expanded ambulatory care in the works at Sydenham Campus
