Live wait-time analytics
Wait-time analytics
A system-level view of current pressure, sustained risk, coverage quality, and care-type trends across tracked facilities.
Live wait-time analytics
Wait-time analytics
The story of ER pressure across the region — what waits look like right now, when the calm windows come, and how the month has run.
ER pressure right now
Elevated
The median ER wait is 3h 18m — about 39% above what's typical for a Saturday this morning.
CalmTypicalElevatedSevere
Driving it: St. Paul's Hospital (3h 20m) and Richmond Hospital (4h 45m).
Today, hour by hour · dashed line = a typical Saturday · band = usual range
1h 45m
Shortest ER wait · Mount Saint Joseph Hospital
4h 45m
Longest ER wait · Richmond Hospital
14 / 25
Facilities reporting
8am–10am
Usually the quietest window
01Right now
Two hospitals are carrying most of this morning's pressure.
Latest posted wait at each facility, and how it compares to that facility's usual level for this hour.
Emergency departments
Richmond Hospital4h 45m+1h 9m vs usual
3h 20m+1h 28m vs usual
Vancouver General Hospital3h 18m+12m vs usual
BC Children's Hospital2h 45m+46m vs usual
Lions Gate Hospital2h 18m≈ usual
UBC Hospital1h 54m≈ usual
1h 45m≈ usual
Urgent & primary care
Richmond East UPCC6h 31m+1h 54m vs usual
North Vancouver Centre UPCC4h 59m+27m vs usual
Southeast UPCC4h 57m+2h 20m vs usual
Richmond City Centre UPCC4h 27m+43m vs usual
Vancouver City Centre UPCC4h 6m+1h 22m vs usual
Northeast UPCC2h 29m−36m vs usual
UBC UPCC1h 0m≈ usual
BC Children's Hospital
BC Women's HospitalVancouver Coastal Health02The rhythm
Waits peak from 12–2am; mornings run about 3h 46m lighter.
The region's daily cycle over the past 30 days — and each facility's own version of it.
Average wait by hour, per facility busiest first · hover for exact values
12a
6a
12p
6p
Richmond HospitalVancouver General HospitalBC Children's HospitalRichmond East UPCCNorth Vancouver Centre UPCCRichmond City Centre UPCCVancouver City Centre UPCC<1h → 5h+
The regional day curve median wait by hour, all ERs
12am6amnoon6pm11pm
✓ Best time to go: 8am–10am
03The week
Fridays are the roughest day — Saturdays run about 23m lighter.
Median ER wait by day of week, past 30 days. Click a day to see its full curve.
Mon
3h 0m
Tue
3h 2m
Wed
3h 4m
Thu
2h 47m
Fri
3h 8m
Sat ·
2h 45m
Sun
2h 56m
Saturday — today— actual so far · ┄ projected · band = usual range
04ER vs urgent care
An ER visit costs about 1h 1m more than urgent care — and the gap is widening.
Median wait by care type, past 30 days. UPCCs treat non-life-threatening conditions walk-in.
30-day trend daily median wait
Emergency departmentsUrgent & primary care
What a visit looked like share of posted ER waits, past 30 days
<1h1-2h2-3h3-4h4h+
05The full visit
Waiting is only half the story — a full Richmond Hospital visit runs about 12h 25m.
Current wait plus the facility's own estimated length of stay (ELOS) — the closest thing to a door-to-discharge estimate.
Emergency departments
Richmond Hospital12h 25m4h 45m wait · 7h 40m care
Vancouver General Hospital11h 18m3h 18m wait · 8h 0m care
9h 18m3h 20m wait · 5h 58m care
BC Children's Hospital7h 54m2h 45m wait · 5h 9m care
Lions Gate Hospital7h 50m2h 18m wait · 5h 32m care
5h 53m1h 45m wait · 4h 8m care
UBC Hospital5h 49m1h 54m wait · 3h 55m care
Urgent & primary care
Richmond East UPCC12h 53m6h 31m wait · 6h 22m care
North Vancouver Centre UPCC11h 8m4h 59m wait · 6h 9m care
Southeast UPCC9h 39m4h 57m wait · 4h 42m care
Richmond City Centre UPCC9h 19m4h 27m wait · 4h 52m care
Vancouver City Centre UPCC8h 14m4h 6m wait · 4h 8m care
Northeast UPCC5h 6m2h 29m wait · 2h 37m care
UBC UPCC2h 1m1h 0m wait · 1h 1m care
time waitingestimated time in care (ELOS)
06Steady or a gamble
Lions Gate Hospital runs long but steady — BC Children's Hospital is a coin flip.
Each facility's 30-day median wait against how much it typically swings. Right = longer, up = less predictable.
07The month
Only 15 genuinely calm days in the last 61.
Each square is one day, colored by the region's median ER wait. This view keeps growing as history accumulates.
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2h 33m4h 26mcalmer → rougher
08The long game
No facility has held the top spot for long.
30-day median per facility, its evening peak, the last 30 days as a sparkline, and whether the last week improved.
| Facility | Type | 30-day median | Evening peak | Last 30 days | 7-day trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Hospital | ED | 4h 27m | 4h 36m | ▼ −17m | |
| Vancouver General Hospital | ED | 4h 4m | 4h 2m | ▲ +8m | |
| ED | 3h 49m | 4h 17m | ▲ +38m | ||
| BC Children's Hospital | ED | 3h 14m | 4h 6m | ▲ +32m | |
| Richmond East UPCC | UPCC | 2h 49m | 1h 54m | ▲ +24m | |
| Richmond City Centre UPCC | UPCC | 2h 36m | 1h 28m | ▲ +40m | |
| North Vancouver Centre UPCC | UPCC | 2h 29m | 1h 8m | ▲ +21m | |
| Vancouver City Centre UPCC | UPCC | 2h 23m | 1h 48m | ▲ +24m | |
| UPCC | 2h 20m | 1h 15m | ▲ +15m | ||
| UPCC | 2h 10m | 1h 13m | ▲ +21m |
09The standings race
Lions Gate has climbed 2 places in three weeks — Richmond is sliding.
Weekly ranking by median wait, longest at the top. Like league standings, but you want to be at the bottom.
10Records & oddities
This month's records: a 11-hour wait, a golden-hour lull, and one hospital that barely moved.
The superlatives of the last 30 days — the extremes hiding inside the averages.
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Longest wait recorded
10h 42m
Richmond Hospital · Thu, Aug 20, 11:16 p.m.
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The golden hour
8am
1h 59m median — the quietest window
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The metronome
UBC Hospital
swung just ±43m all month
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The rollercoaster
UBC UPCC
±6h 32m — pack a book, or get lucky
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Calmest day
Sat, Aug 15
regional median 2h 33m
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Roughest day
Sat, Aug 29
regional median 4h 26m
Full-moon check 🌕 — ER folklore says full moons bring chaos. Full moons in this window ran +12m vs the monthly average. (This one gets better as history accumulates.)
About this data.Wait times are the figures each facility posts publicly, collected every minute from the official edwaittimes.ca feed. “Typical” ranges are per-facility medians for the same hour and day-of-week over the past 28 days. Posted waits are estimates made by the facilities themselves — sicker patients are always seen first. Facilities that don't publish wait times are excluded from regional numbers, not counted as zero.