Mayor of Clearwater BC🇨🇦 TNRD and ETSI-BC RAC boards. BCIT Broadcast Class 96. Cat herding shark jumper. 4 time cancer survivor 🏳️🌈 ally
Jul 29 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
A thread 🧵Things I've learned about keeping your Emergency Department - and Hospital- open in BC in the time of a nationwide shortage of Nurses and Doctors. /1
The Background. In late 2021 through to September of 2022, our smalltown hospital -Dr. helmcken Memorial- saw over 70 "diversions" aka closures of the Emergency Department. In the spring of 2022, my council and I started to get involved in trying to turn this around. /2
