To handle the overflow, a former meeting room has been turned into a makeshift patient room. The intensive-care mental health unit has a total of nine beds across the hall from an adult in-patient unit with another 19. The goal is to move patients within 22 hours to the third-floor intensive care unit and adult in-patient mental health unit. Last month, Ontario Tory Leader Doug Ford announced a $1.9-billion envelope over 10 years in mental health, addictions and housing supports. The provincial NDP, if elected, is committing $1.4 billion over the next four years to mental health services, in part to hire 2,600 mental health-care workers caring for 28,000 more Ontarians every year, including mental health supports for students in every high school.

Source: thestar May 10, 2018 09:22 UTC