{"id":848100,"date":"2026-08-06T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848100\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:00:17","slug":"elderly-patient-with-early-alzheimers-kept-for-days-in-hospital-hallway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848100\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly patient with early Alzheimer\u2019s kept for days in hospital hallway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Shyluk\u2019s 88-year-old dad had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance on July 27 for an injury.<\/p>\n

Jerry Shyluk, who suffers from early Alzheimer\u2019s, was brought to the emergency room at St. Paul\u2019s Hospital on a stretcher. He waited for more than two hours to get help.<\/p>\n

That wait didn\u2019t compare, though, to the one for a ward bed.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

After being seen, Jerry was eventually placed onto a hospital bed in an ER hallway. It\u2019s where he spent the roughly next five days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I arrived to see him, it broke my heart. My dad was in the middle of chaos,\u201d Mark said.<\/p>\n

According to Mark, there was constant movement of people, stretchers, medical equipment and visitors around him. There wasn\u2019t a call button his dad could press for help, the space didn\u2019t offer any privacy and the hallway\u2019s bright fluorescent lights were on at all hours.<\/p>\n

Mark said he could see the strain the chaotic environment had on his dad.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you would come to visit him, he would have this really bewildered and scared look on his face,\u201d Mark said. \u201cHe stated he felt like he was in storage and in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Saskatchewan<\/a><\/p>\n

Saskatchewan NDP leader, Carla Beck, speaks about the poor state of health care in Saskatchewan in front of St. Paul\u2019s Hospital on Aug. 5, 2026. (Mia Holowaychuk\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n

With all the chaos, he said his dad wasn\u2019t sleeping.<\/p>\n

Mark explained how, with Jerry\u2019s early Alzheimer\u2019s, it\u2019s important for his dad to be in a familiar space. Just being in a hospital was already difficult for the senior.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, when there\u2019s constant change and chaos, I\u2019m sure it was quite terrifying for him,\u201d Mark said.<\/p>\n

Pattern of hallway healthcare<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time concerns over hallway healthcare have been raised in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n

Back in July, Anne Fournier recounted spending a week in Royal University Hospital (RUH)\u2019s hallway,<\/a> where she was seeking treatment for vomiting blood.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, full-time nurse Drayson McGilvery said roughly 28 to 32 beds were added to RUH\u2019s ER hallways<\/a>. Patients were more likely to get a bed in the hallway than in the ER.<\/p>\n

Just a month before McGilvery\u2019s account, in September 2025, Tim Lang shared how his 82-year-old mother was kept for three days in a hallway at RUH<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Standing alongside Mark as he shared his dad\u2019s experience, NDP leader Carla Beck said this level of healthcare shouldn\u2019t be accepted as normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that it\u2019s commonplace does not make it right,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In an emailed statement, the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) wrote, \u201cSaskatoon hospitals have been experiencing higher than average capacity levels at the start of summer,\u201d but offered assurance that those pressures have eased up this month.<\/p>\n

The health authority highlighted the 109 acute care patient beds being added to Saskatoon City Hospital, alongside 36 acute care beds at RUH and 24 acute care and four ICU beds at St. Paul\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

When asked whether hallway healthcare is a reality Saskatchewan residents need to accept, the SHA did not provide a direct response.<\/p>\n

\u2013with files from 650 CKOM\u2019s Mia Holowaychuk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Shyluk\u2019s 88-year-old dad had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance on July 27 for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-848100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}