Toronto’s downtown hospitals are struggling to keep up with demand - The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

 ...They are also disadvantaged by a Byzantine hospital-funding formula that is not nimble enough to respond to such an extraordinary spike in traffic at one cluster of hospitals, according to a June, 2016, report commissioned by the local health authority that oversees Toronto.

“EDs can’t survive in this way,” Dr. Chopra said. “You’ll have staff dissatisfaction, patient dissatisfaction, poor patient outcomes. We have been extremely lucky that somebody hasn’t died.”...