Inquiry looking into man's death in Edmonton ER hears about too many patients, not enough beds or doctors
2026-10-23 from cbc.ca
An Edmonton physician says hiring more doctors won’t solve chronic overcrowding at Grey Nuns Community Hospital.
The hospital's five general medicine units have been operating above capacity — with more patients than beds — since at least 2024, said Dr. Greg Hrynchyshyn, an internal medicine specialist and president of the general internal medicine section of the Alberta Medical Association.
“There is an actual physical limit to what care can be provided in the facility,” he testified Thursday at a fatality inquiry into the death of a man in the Grey Nun’s emergency department.
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