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A snapshot of wait times at hospital emergency departments across Canada (www.ctvnews.ca)
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Reports of high average wait times at hospital emergency rooms across the country were punctuated by CTV News medical correspondent Avis Favaro's latest story focusing on the dire consequences long wait times at crowded ERs can have on patients.

In light of studies showing patients admitted to ERs are waiting longer to get into an acute care bed, CTVNews.ca has collected wait time data over a recent time period from a selection of hospitals in cities across Canada, to give you a snapshot of the wait times Canadians are dealing with.

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[–] cynber 4 points 2 years ago

This is a bit of a tangent, but I'm curious who runs this website: http://www.edwaittimes.ca/WaitTimes.aspx

It's always been slow for me, and it doesn't feel that accessible (text is hard to read etc.). A quick upgrade and refresh might make it a lot smoother for people. If we wanted to go more fancy with it, it could have a dashboard page just for hospitals to display in their ERs, like they do (did?) at MSJ.

I know BC has a Github with open source projects, and this seems like a relatively simple upgrade if we knew what the API / data source was. I'm noticing some AJAX & jquery. Could something like Vue/Nuxt work as a replacement? The pages could be rendered server side, and then every 5 minutes it could be refreshed with the new data.