New care coordination centre in Halifax hospital aiming to ease pressure on emergency rooms

As certain aspects of Nova Scotia’s health care system remains under scrutiny, a new system at a Halifax hospital aims to cut down on wait times and ease pressure on packed emergency rooms. As Skye Bryden-Blom reports, hospital staff say a new care coordination centre at the QEII in Halifax is allowing them to track bed availability, testing and procedure status, and ambulance offloads.

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