Hospitals in Greater Toronto are transferring critically ill patients further and further away and in ever greater numbers to cope with the ongoing crush of COVID-19 patients needing intensive care.
This past week, Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital transferred patients to Burlington. Peel’s William Osler Health System sent patients to Kitchener. And Scarborough Health Network was forced to transport patients more than 100 kilometres east to Peterborough — and is exploring options as far away as Kingston — as critical care units overflow with COVID-19 cases.
Sainted Irish Mudda Update.
Mom ended her 2 week Covid isolation last week at the hospital and the physio/rehab clinic has a bed for her. She was exposed to a staffer who tested positive but she did not catch the Kung Flu. She’ll be transferred tomorrow.
And guess what! The rehab she’s headed to has contained their Covid outbreak to the 4th floor and that means I can’t visit her for 2 weeks as she’ll be in isolation again.
Her hearing aids were dropped at the hospital and now don’t work. I was able to get them looked at last week and was told they are toast.
Got her a Pocket Talker and it works surprising well so that’ll do until we get her new hearing aids.
Longtime Republican operative and Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver has resigned from the anti-Trump group he helped launched after admitting to having sent sexual messages to numerous men, with the veteran strategist also coming out as gay at the same time.
