Parking is free across all our facilities. The clinically recommended maximum time by which an urgent elective surgical procedure should be performed is 30 days. A SAB infection is considered to be healthcare-associated if the first positive blood culture is collected more than 48 hours after hospital admission or less than 48 hours after discharge, or if the first positive blood culture is collected 48 hours or less after admission and one or more of the following clinical criteria was met for the case of S. aureus: The definition of healthcare-associated S. aureus was developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission). Suite 4 - Above Shoppers Drug Mart These will be updated when the current review process is complete and new arrangements are in place for reporting. SAB can be acquired after a patient receives medical care or treatment in a hospital. Hand hygiene data are provided by state and territory health authorities for public hospitals and by individual private hospitals. the proportion of MSSA cases increased from 78% to 82%. This measure is sourced from the National Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia Data Collection (NSABDC). aureus bloodstream infections per 10,000 days of patient care for public hospitals in each state and territory. Reported as an average of wait times for the previous 2 hours of patients that have presented to the emergency department and have been seen by a provider Refreshed at least every 15 minutes Many circumstances can affect wait times - for example, patients arriving by ambulance or with life-threatening injuries or illnesses. In NSW, there is a target of 90% of patients that should have their care transferred from ambulance to emergency department staff within 30 minutes. From 1 July 2016, surgical speciality was revised to include Paediatric surgery. Read more about our COVID-19 Assessment Centres and other important pandemic information here. Between 2014–15 and 2018–19, the waiting time of 50% of patients: Between 2014–15 and 2018–19, the 90th percentile waiting time: Between 2014–15 and 2018–19, the proportion of patients who waited more than 365 days to be admitted: When a patient is placed on the public hospital elective surgery waiting list, a clinical assessment is made of the urgency within which they require elective surgery (the clinically recommended time). of patients spent four hours or less in the emergency department, of patients who arrived by ambulance were transferred into the care of emergency department staff within 30 minutes, The median waiting time to receive urgent elective surgery, of patients received their urgent elective surgery on time, The median waiting time to receive semi-urgent elective surgery, of patients received their semi-urgent elective surgery on time, The median waiting time to receive non-urgent elective surgery, of patients received their non-urgent elective surgery on time, said they were ‘always’ treated with respect and dignity, said the care and treatment ‘definitely’ helped them, would ‘speak highly’ of their experience at the ED to friends and family, said they were ‘definitely’ involved, as much as they wanted to be, in decisions about their care, said nurses were ‘always’ kind and caring, said health professionals ‘always’ explained things in an understandable way, said the care and treatment ‘definitely’ helped, rated the care during labour and birth as ‘very good’, said they ‘always’ had confidence and trust in the midwives or doctors, of women rated the care after their baby was born as ‘very good’. For example, the ALOS for, the overall ALOS for public and private hospitals combined decreased by an average of 1.3% per year from 2.8 days to 2.7 days, for overnight hospitalisations, the ALOS in all hospitals combined was relatively stable between 2014–15 and 2018–19, decreasing by an average of 0.8% each year over this period, homogeneity, where variation is more likely to be attributable to the hospital’s performance rather than variations in the patients themselves, representativeness across clinical groups, differences between jurisdictions and/or sectors. Our reports show where the healthcare system is performing well and where there are opportunities to improve. Something went wrong. 1-866-797-0000 Here you will find current wait times for Niagara Health's Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centres. Click here to see the number of ways you can give us your compliments, concerns and suggestions.