Ontario has been facing backlash after tabling legislation that would allow the province to explore viable long-term care homes on behalf of an ALC patient without consent.

The emergency department at the Devon General Hospital near Edmonton will fully reopen on Sept. 7, while inpatient care will resume on Sept. 20.

Hospitals were at breaking point with only three critical care beds available in greater Seoul, an area with a population of almost 26 million people, officials said.

Joe Glowacki had a heart attack in Arizona in December, but despite being stable and cleared to travel the next day, he couldn't get an available spot at the London Health Sciences Centre.

Ontario is looking at the Humber River Hospital's Finch site that was closed last year to move operations to a new facility a few kilometres away, Health Minister Eric Hoskins said Wednesday. The reopened facility would be used to care for so-called alternate level of care patients, many of whom are waiting in hospital for a bed in a long-term care facility.