As a small number of homeless patients make thousands of emergency room visits, hospitals grapple with how to better treat people with nowhere else to turn
  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Just as troubling, he says, is that of the nearly 9,000 patients with no fixed address who visited Edmonton emergency rooms last year.

    Jesus Christ. That’s a lot of people for a city of only 1 million people, and one that’s among the most affordable in Canada.

    What’s causing their homelessness?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      one that’s among the most affordable in Canada.

      Is it, though? As more services get pushed into private, I worry the affordability will suffer in ways the Rest of Canada isn’t aware of.