The wait time to see a doctor exceeded the provincial average at all Ottawa hospital emergency rooms this summer, with the Queensway-Carleton Hospital having one of the longest wait times in the province.
Statistics from Health Quality Ontario show the provincial average for waiting to see a doctor for a first assessment in an emergency room was two hours in August.
The Queensway-Carleton Hospital had the longest wait of all Ottawa emergency rooms, and third longest in Ontario, at four hours. The wait time dropped from 4.1 hours in July.
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The average wait time for a first assessment in the ER in August was 2.8 hours at the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus (2.8 hours in July), 2.7 hours at the Ottawa Hospital General Campus (2.6 hours in July), 2.7 hours at the Montfort Hospital (2.6 …