On August 27, 2026, Quebec's emergency departments showed a slight intraday improvement in waiting numbers, decreasing from 1,236 patients waiting in the earliest snapshot to 1,198 at the latest. However, overall stretcher occupancy rose from 81% to 84% over the course of the day across 120 tracked facilities. Compared to 11 days prior (August 17), while the total number of waiting patients dropped by 47, stretcher occupancy climbed significantly by 10 percentage points from 74%, pointing to growing congestion for admitted patients. This historical data is sourced from urgencesquebec.com.
Metropolitan regions continue to bear the heaviest burden. Laval recorded an extreme 192% stretcher occupancy rate, followed by Montérégie at 122% and Montréal at 119%. Montréal remains the volume epicenter with 322 patients waiting, heavily driven by high-traffic facilities such as Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont with 68 waiting and Hôpital Royal Victoria, which reported a critical 233% stretcher occupancy.