Promise History
2.12.02 - “Increasing capacity will begin with a dedicated operating room, and hip and knee pilot program at St. Joseph’s Hospital this year [2020].”
22-Sep-2023
Since October 2020, St. Joseph Hospital in Saint John has had a room exclusively intended for orthopedic surgeries.
“ Residents also gain further operative experience at St. Joseph’s Wayne – a community hospital only a short distance away from our main campus. Our residents are based out of our new Orthopedic Surgery Conference Room, which is conveniently located across the hall from our private orthopedic floor”.
Program overview
12-Apr-2022
The Higgs government’s 2022-2023 health budget indicates that a surgical intensive care unit should be added to the Saint John Regional Hospital.
“This year’s $103.8-million capital budget projects include: […] $13.4 million for work on a new medical and surgical intensive care unit and an oncology unit at Saint John Regional Hospital[.]”
Department of Health budget released
02-Jun-2021
According to our methodology, in order for this promise to be considered kept, a reduction of half the waiting list must be observed between the beginning of the current term on September 29, 2020 and the deadline for the promise on March 31, 2021. The status of the promise will be subject to review when this data becomes available. For now, the available data indicates that there has been some progress made, so the promise is considered to be in progress.
“The provincial government has reduced the number of people waiting longer than a year for hip and knee replacements by over 50 per cent, between December 2020 and April 30, 2021. […] From December 2020 to April 2021, the number of people on a waiting list decreased from 747 to 346. As part of a pilot project in Saint John, over 450 hip and knee replacement surgeries have been completed at St. Joseph’s Hospital since Oct. 13, 2020.”
Hip and knee replacement wait times cut in half - Department of Health
25-Nov-2020
“Shephard said a pilot project at St-Joseph’s Hospital in Saint John will soon cut the growing wait times for knee and hip surgeries. In recent weeks, St-Joseph’s has increased the number of hip and knee surgeries to as many as 20 per week. She said this will help the Higgs government reach its goal of cutting wait times in half by March. Shephard said the province is also running programs to help people waiting for surgery with physiotherapy so they can manage their pain better and, in some cases, eliminate it altogether.”
02-Nov-2020
“Prior to COVID-19 and the cancellation of the elective surgeries, the average wait time for a knee or hip replacements in this province was 450 days. “That would be roughly, the average would be about a year and a half wait for a knee or a hip arthroplasty prior to the pandemic. Now it’s an extra 90 days.” Forsythe said the province hasn’t made any progress with the wait-list. Instead, it has become a lot worse since the first wave of the pandemic, something he finds troubling and discouraging.”
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