This Ontario ER built a separate waiting room for patients with mental health emergencies | Ottawa's Montfort Hospital sees twice as many mental health emergency patients as provincial average

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/montfort-hospital-mental-health-emergency-zone-1.7643240?cmp=rss

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ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 319d

They have that in Nanaimo too, it’s a separate ER next to the regular one. It’s not nearly as nice as that though.

datavoid@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 319d

Spoiler - if you can wait in the waiting room, you aren't having a mental health emergency