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
Typical
The median ER wait is 3h 20m — right about typical for a Saturday tonight.
CalmTypicalElevatedSevere
Driving it: Lions Gate Hospital (3h 59m) and Vancouver General Hospital (4h 10m).
Today, hour by hour · dashed line = a typical Saturday · band = usual range
28m
Shortest ER wait · Mount Saint Joseph Hospital
4h 10m
Longest ER wait · Vancouver General Hospital
13 / 25
Facilities reporting
8am–10am
Usually the quietest window
01Right now
Two hospitals are carrying most of tonight's pressure.
Latest posted wait at each facility, and how it compares to that facility's usual level for this hour.
Emergency departments
Vancouver General Hospital4h 10m+11m vs usual
Lions Gate Hospital3h 59m+1h 6m vs usual
Richmond Hospital3h 20m≈ usual
BC Children's Hospital2h 42m−1h 19m vs usual
1h 43m≈ usual
UBC Hospital1h 21m≈ usual
28m−13m vs usual
Urgent & primary care
Richmond East UPCC2h 44m≈ usual
Richmond City Centre UPCC2h 14m+53m vs usual
Northeast UPCC1h 49m+32m vs usual
UBC UPCC1h 40m≈ usual
Southeast UPCC1h 15m+11m vs usual
Vancouver City Centre UPCC1h 12m≈ usual
BC Children's Hospital
BC Women's HospitalVancouver Coastal Health02The rhythm
Waits peak from 12–3am; mornings run about 3h 31m 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 Hospital<1h → 5h+
The regional day curve median wait by hour, all ERs
12am6amnoon6pm11pm
✓ Best time to go: 8am–10am
03The week
Mondays are the roughest day — Saturdays run about 41m lighter.
Median ER wait by day of week, past 30 days. Click a day to see its full curve.
Mon
3h 25m
Tue
2h 57m
Wed
2h 56m
Thu
2h 56m
Fri
2h 52m
Sat ·
2h 44m
Sun
2h 54m
Saturday — today— actual so far · ┄ projected · band = usual range
04ER vs urgent care
ER and urgent-care waits are running close together right now.
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 Vancouver General Hospital visit runs about 15h 59m.
Current wait plus the facility's own estimated length of stay (ELOS) — the closest thing to a door-to-discharge estimate.
Emergency departments
Vancouver General Hospital15h 59m4h 10m wait · 11h 49m care
Lions Gate Hospital9h 52m3h 59m wait · 5h 53m care
Richmond Hospital8h 19m3h 20m wait · 4h 59m care
BC Children's Hospital6h 50m2h 42m wait · 4h 8m care
5h 27m1h 43m wait · 3h 44m care
UBC Hospital3h 32m1h 21m wait · 2h 11m care
2h 19m28m wait · 1h 51m care
Urgent & primary care
Richmond East UPCC5h 41m2h 44m wait · 2h 57m care
Richmond City Centre UPCC4h 46m2h 14m wait · 2h 32m care
UBC UPCC4h 10m1h 40m wait · 2h 30m care
Northeast UPCC3h 51m1h 49m wait · 2h 2m care
Southeast UPCC2h 57m1h 15m wait · 1h 42m care
Vancouver City Centre UPCC2h 45m1h 12m wait · 1h 33m care
time waitingestimated time in care (ELOS)
06Steady or a gamble
Delta 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 12 genuinely calm days in the last 48.
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 41m5h 4mcalmer → 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ED | 4h 42m | 5h 19m | — | ||
| Richmond Hospital | ED | 4h 28m | 4h 34m | ▲ +39m | |
| ED | 4h 15m | 5h 18m | — | ||
| Vancouver General Hospital | ED | 4h 5m | 4h 16m | ▼ −47m | |
| ED | 3h 43m | 3h 54m | — | ||
| BC Children's Hospital | ED | 3h 40m | 4h 40m | → ±2m | |
| ED | 3h 40m | 5h 28m | — | ||
| ED | 3h 29m | 3h 33m | → ±4m | ||
| ED | 3h 20m | 4h 19m | — | ||
| ED | 3h 20m | 4h 26m | — |
09The standings race
Lions Gate has climbed 1 place in three weeks — BC Children's 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 12-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
11h 48m
Vancouver General Hospital · Tue, Jun 30, 12:02 a.m.
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The golden hour
8am
2h 2m median — the quietest window
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The metronome
Mount Saint Joseph Hospital
swung just ±38m all month
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The rollercoaster
UBC UPCC
±2h 9m — pack a book, or get lucky
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Calmest day
Thu, Jul 2
regional median 2h 41m
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Roughest day
Mon, Jun 15
regional median 3h 50m
Full-moon check 🌕 — ER folklore says full moons bring chaos. Full moons in this window ran +29m 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.