For four days, Eric Roberts was parked by a garbage room. On another day, his food tray was moved seven times for hallway traffic. And for one blessed day he had a room with a TV and some privacy.
Saanich resident Eric Roberts was one of many seniors in Victoria General Hospital this month — the only difference being he spent nine of his 10 days there in hallways.
“I was in a lovely room one night and visitors came to see me and halfway through the next morning I was bounced out,” Roberts said. “I guess someone more deserving needed the room. Even though I had infections, I guess I was seen as healthy enough to withstand the hallway.” “If you have quite a bit of pain, you don’t give a damn who sees what and who does what,” Roberts said. “I was in that situation quite a bit. Most guys, after a while, don’t care — but there was really no screen around me ever.”
Occupancy above 100 per cent does not necessarily mean patients are in hallways, as it can include people in the emergency department waiting for an inpatient bed and patients on wards in over-census beds , according to Island Health. As of March 12, Victoria General Hospital’s rate of alternative-level-care patients — those who no longer require hospital care but are waiting to go back in their home with supports or to assisted living or long-term care — was 11.7 per cent, said Island Health.
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