Alternate care ? in hospital jargon, those under alternate care are called BEDBLOCKERS. maybe there aren't that many bedblockers who are carefully hidden from view anyway, visitors are rare in these back wards... !Citing bed-blockers is an excuse for a real shortage of beds.
There has been a population explosion in downtown Toronto, did hospital beds allocation grow at the same pace ? Of course not,we are fed meaningless stats, asked to participate in surveys to improve blah.blah blan.. while the shortage of beds grows.
Hospital staff is so frantic that they often ignore the most basic principles of care and compassion.
A few days ago I met the friend I was coming to visit in the ground floor lobby of the hospital, he had been discharged !!! I had visited the previous day ( gowned, masde, gloved and goggled ) there had been no indication of diagnosis or discharge ... When I asked patient relations why I had not been informed I was told " They applied the law"