The B.C. government has allocated an additional $261,000 to emergency care at the University Hospital for Northern B.C in Prince George to ease patient congestion and wait times.
"Prince George has the busiest emergency room in the North, so it's imperative that we look at ways to increase its efficiency and decrease wait times," says Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond during the Wednesday announcement.
The funds are being allocated as patient- focused funding which is a method targeting the money for quantity and quality health care services.
These funds will be invested in a variety of projects aimed at moving patients either into a hospital bed or back into the community within certain time frames. Read more in The Citizen.
