QUEENSWAY CARLETON EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

102%

Average occupancy between April 2016 and February 2017

78,000

Patients who visited emergency last year. Similar numbers are expected this year.

59,000

Patients the emergency department was meant to handle annually when it was built in 2005

220

Average number of patients a day in emergency

9,100

Children and youth visit emergency each year – 11 per cent

3,000

Mental health-related visits to emergency each year