Restructuring Canada's hospitals--looking for financial vital signs

Hospitals across Canada are busy restructuring their facilities and services, trying to head off a crisis precipitated by increasing patient demand and static or declining provincial government funding. The challenge is compounded by a looming age wave of elderly. In Ontario, and Toronto in particular, the country's hospital heartland, an unusual interdisciplinary committee has reached out far beyond obvious health care sources, to the public that uses these facilities and services.