From today's edition of
The Globe and Mail:
Jennifer Clark has been living for two years in a stark room in Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital. In fact, patients with mental illness — unwanted and forgotten — account for an astounding one-third of all hospital time.
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Jennifer and her husband Rhys Clark in her room at the Royal Jubilee Hospital May 17, 2008. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)
By the numbers
9: percentage of visits to the emergency room that are related to mental health
24 to 72: the number of hours a patient with severe depression can wait for care at the ER
16: percentage of hospital stays in Canada related to treatment for mental illness
75: percentage of patients treated at Victoria’s Archie Courtnall Centre who have substance-abuse problems
38: percentage of patients [diagnosed with schizophrenia] discharged from hospital who are readmitted within a year
80 percentage of sufferers of mental illness treated primarily by a family doctor
34,418: the dollars required to support someone with serious mental illness to live in the community for one year
170,820: the dollars required to keep a mental-health patient in hospital for a year
Sources: Canadian Institute for Health Information; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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