According to historical data from urgencesquebec.com, Quebec's emergency departments faced ongoing capacity strain on August 10, 2026, with 1,450 patients waiting to be seen and 3,697 total patients in ERs across 120 facilities. The latest snapshot shows a slight improvement in waiting patients from the day's earliest count of 1,527, but overall occupancy remains higher than nine days ago (August 2, 2026), when there were 1,447 waiting patients and a lower stretcher occupancy of 71% (a 6 percentage point increase).
Critical overcapacity remains a major issue in multiple regions, most notably in Laval and Laurentides, which reported stretcher occupancy rates of 129% and 120% respectively. On an individual facility level, Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne (Montérégie) recorded the highest congestion with 72 patients waiting, while Hôpital de Saint-Eustache (Laurentides) operated at a critical 154% stretcher capacity with 45 patients waiting.