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 8h 15m — about 14% above what's typical for a Thursday tonight.
CalmTypicalElevatedSevere
Driving it: Vancouver General Hospital (9h 0m) and Lions Gate Hospital (5h 45m). UPCCs remain under an hour.
Today, hour by hour · dashed line = a typical Thursday · band = usual range
30m
Shortest ER wait · Mount Saint Joseph Hospital
9h 0m
Longest ER wait · Vancouver General Hospital
7 / 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 Hospital9h 0m+1h 45m vs usual
Richmond Hospital8h 30m≈ usual
BC Children's Hospital8h 15m+15m vs usual
Lions Gate Hospital5h 45m+45m vs usual
2h 15m−15m vs usual
UBC Hospital45m≈ usual
30m≈ usual
BC Children's Hospital
BC Women's HospitalVancouver Coastal Health02The rhythm
Waits peak from 12–2am; mornings run about 4h 0m 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 City Centre UPCCRichmond East UPCCNorth Vancouver 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
Tuesdays are the roughest day — Thursdays run about 33m lighter.
Median ER wait by day of week, past 30 days. Click a day to see its full curve.
Mon
3h 30m
Tue
3h 45m
Wed
3h 30m
Thu ·
3h 12m
Fri
3h 30m
Sat
3h 30m
Sun
3h 30m
Thursday — today— actual so far · ┄ projected · band = usual range
04ER vs urgent care
An ER visit costs about 1h 30m 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 Vancouver General Hospital visit runs about 22h 15m.
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 Hospital22h 15m9h 0m wait · 13h 15m care
Richmond Hospital19h 45m8h 30m wait · 11h 15m care
BC Children's Hospital16h 45m8h 15m wait · 8h 30m care
Lions Gate Hospital15h 15m5h 45m wait · 9h 30m care
UBC Hospital8h 45m45m wait · 8h 0m care
6h 45m2h 15m wait · 4h 30m care
3h 15m30m wait · 2h 45m care
time waitingestimated time in care (ELOS)
06Steady or a gamble
Most facilities swing about the same amount from day to day.
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 60.
Each square is one day, colored by the region's median ER wait. This view keeps growing as history accumulates.
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3h 0m4h 11mcalmer → rougher
08The long game
Richmond Hospital has run the region's longest waits for 4 straight weeks.
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 | 5h 15m | 5h 30m | → ±0m | |
| Vancouver General Hospital | ED | 5h 0m | 4h 45m | ▼ −15m | |
| BC Children's Hospital | ED | 4h 45m | 6h 30m | ▲ +30m | |
| ED | 3h 45m | 4h 15m | ▲ +45m | ||
| Richmond City Centre UPCC | UPCC | 2h 45m | 1h 20m | ▲ +15m | |
| Richmond East UPCC | UPCC | 2h 45m | 1h 31m | ▼ −15m | |
| North Vancouver Centre UPCC | UPCC | 2h 30m | 1h 15m | ▼ −30m | |
| Vancouver City Centre UPCC | UPCC | 2h 18m | 1h 37m | ▲ +15m | |
| UPCC | 2h 15m | 1h 22m | ▲ +45m | ||
| UPCC | 2h 15m | 1h 18m | ▲ +45m |
09The standings race
St. Paul's has climbed 1 place in three weeks — UBC 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
11h 28m
BC Children's Hospital · Fri, Sep 18, 11:31 p.m.
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The golden hour
8am
2h 15m median — the quietest window
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The metronome
St. Paul's Hospital
swung just ±40m all month
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The rollercoaster
BC Children's Hospital
±2h 4m — pack a book, or get lucky
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Calmest day
Wed, Sep 16
regional median 3h 8m
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Roughest day
Fri, Oct 9
regional median 4h 11m
Full-moon check 🌕 — ER folklore says full moons bring chaos. Full moons in this window ran +18m 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.