hospital\u00a0website<\/a>, you can get\u00a0a live text update every 60 minutes detailing your current place in the waiting room. When you arrive at the hospital, you will be triaged and registered and then wait to be seen by a care provider.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are excited to introduce an innovative Virtual Home Waiting Room for patients who would rather wait in the comfort of their home or other location and do not want to wait in a hospital waiting room,\u201d said Dr. Stephen Smith, vice-president of medical affairs and emergency department physician.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, the Virtual Home Waiting Room allows care providers to streamline patient flow, reduce peak time congestion, and enhance operational efficiency by notifying patients of the optimal time to visit the Emergency Department.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eligible conditions include:<\/p>\n
\n\tcough, cold, sore throat
\n\tearache
\n\trashes
\n\tdental pain
\n\tprescription renewal
\n\tsuture or staple removal
\n\tminor cuts and scrapes
\n\tsprains and strains
\n\tburning with urination
<\/p>\n
Currently, 10 patients per day can join the virtual home waiting room with the potential for it to expand in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patients with non-urgent medical needs can now avoid crowded hospital lobbies thanks to a new initiative that lets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,57354],"class_list":["post-98687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-sault-area-hospitalvirtual-home-waiting-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98687","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=98687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}