Caller: 788 8588

Received call asking if I refused treatment, I indicate, yes , but did not want to hear that I was there for 5 hours and that I would have to wait another hour before an bladder test need to be performed when there are two doctors attending to me, however, they were earlier shooting the sh*t, while I was still waiting to see-you the same two doctors.

Caller: Don’t know

Phone number not recognized. Left message saying my first name and it is after hours to call back. All family accounted for. Didn’t return call

Caller: (204) 788-8588

I’ve blocked it and still get repeated calls. Says it’s my area code. I have never answered it and from the look of the complaint comments above, I sure won’t. So glad I had call display.

This number has called me several times. I have never been to the hospital nor have I been out if the state I live in. How can we stop these calls. I blocked them and they still call at all hours. I was woke up at midnight from this number. Most annoying person on earth. STOP CALLING ME!

Some lady named Joan just called me after I came back from Victoria Urgent care to ask about my experience. When I said I was very unhappy there she just hang up on me....rude!

Someone from (204) 788-8588 is also calling my grandsons home to speak with his wife.  It is a man that calls and asks for her by her first name.  It makes no difference whether my grandson answers the phone or his wife does as soon as she answers the man hangs up.  This is not just verification that she lives at that phone number because there have been a number of calls.

After just a couple of hours and investigation . It's Ipsos Reid located at 900-363 Carlton near broadway. I worked there for two days and it was an awfull company . Get tuis they hunt down people for collection companies and other things . Or some nut job at there company . When I answered this is Ipsos Reid I didn't hear much and they didn't call back. Internet is a powerfulthing. They hunt you down and get paid for it how sick

Related Stories (204) 778-8588Patients seek routine care in ERs, say Manitoba ToriesA growing number of people are opting to leave the emergency rooms of Winnipeg's two largest hospitals before they have been seen by a doctor, CBC News has learned.In the past year, 10.7 per cent of patients who sought care at the Health Sciences Centre's emergency room left without being seen ? up 23 per cent from 2009-10 ? according to numbers from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA).About 8.8 per cent of people left St. Boniface General Hospital's emergency room without seeing a doctor in 2011-12. That's up 44 per cent from 2009-10, when it was 6.1 per cent.CBC News obtained the figures from the health authority through an access to information request.The WRHA defines "left without being seen" as people who register with a nurse at the reception desk, but who thereafter leave without being seen by a physician."We're certainly concerned about those who would leave before they are seen, particularly those whose health would be at further risk when they do that," said Lori Lamont, the WRHA's chief nursing officer.Lamont added that a certain percentage of those who leave end up going someplace else, such as a medical clinic.   The WRHA says a call centre run by the provincial government's Health Links telephone service attempts to reach those who leave emergency rooms within 24 hours to see if their health issues have been resolved.Frustrated with waitingSome Winnipeggers who have left emergency rooms without being seen by a doctor say they are just too frustrated with what they describe as long waits.Bob Kury said two months ago, he left the Misericordia Health Centre's emergency room after waiting in pain for several hours.Kury described his pain at the time as a "12 out of 10," adding that he had trouble urinating."I wasn't going to die in an emergency room like Brian Sinclair," he told CBC News on Thursday."If I was going to die, I'll die at home."Brian Sinclair, a double-amputee with a speech problem, was found dead in his wheelchair after spending 34 hours in the waiting room of the Health Sciences Centre's emergency department in 2008.Since then, the Health Sciences Centre has introduced changes to ensure everyone who seeks care at its emergency room is directed by a security officer to a triage nurse who can assess their needs.Sinclair's death has also prompted a public inquiry, in an effort to ensure others don't wait for care in vain.In Kury's case, he said he never saw a doctor at the Misericordia or at the Victoria General Hospital, where he went the next day, but he did note that a nurse at the latter hospital did put in a catheter.'Slight correlation'Lamont said there is a "slight correlation" between the drop-out rate and the wait time in an emergency department."If the wait time is longer, we know that people are more likely to become frustrated and leave," she said.The WRHA's biggest priority is to reduce wait times, Lamont said, but she added that its priority is to see the most serious cases."We know that ? people who have truly emergency kinds of needs are seen really quite quickly," she said.Lamont said the WRHA continues to develop ways to care for people with "less urgent needs" outside the emergency room.Those ways include a series of "quick care clinics" and a "fast-track" system that uses nurse practitioners instead of doctors.Still, Lamont said more and more patients are coming to the emergency rooms at Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface Hospital every year.The health authority monitors wait times each day. On Wednesday, the average wait time to see a doctor at the region's six hospitals was two hours, although on any given day the wait can be much longer.

The caller did not identify himself and they don't accept return calls.
I am pissed off.

This number is a government number mainly used for The Winnipeg regional health Authority, if you leave an emergency room without being seen. They will call for up to 24/hrs to see if you are OK and have sought other medical care for the reason you were at emergency. because of PHIA (personal Health Information Act) they are not aloud to say anything to anyone, Unless it is the patient there calling for.You may say you're that person, and you will find out the info.The number is also used for other health/GVMT related services connected to WRHA, Such as Well being checks, health links call back if you are disconnected, or to check at a later date how you are, person in hospital making a call, a nurse reminding of appointment, the after hours social services relay program, and Probation's Manitoba. They are not allowed to say who they are, as this would violate PHIA, as that person whom attended emergency might not want anyone to know they were there.(As in a personal/private matter) I call the hospital, or all of them to see if theirs someone I know in there, worked once when a friend was in emergency, and attempting to call, they can't leave messages for the above reasons as well.... To protect the patient I guess. But if the patient asks for a nurse to call and let's it be known there in a hospital this number will also be used, and the Hosp. can relay the message, and give the info, that the patient is in care at that hospital. Also included Urgent Care centers.

Bryan klos788-8021call him he is the director of the call center who is doing this... feel free to call him... I am sure he would LOVE to hear from you.  if you cant get him at that number... call Misercordia Hospital and ask for him.  If that does not work for HSC or the Winnipeg Health Authority and ask for the Health Linx Director.