Posted: Dec 23, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
The Nova Scotia Health Authority is still trying to figure out why Cape Breton in-hospital deaths are higher than anywhere else in Canada.(Tom Ayers/CBC)
The hospital death ratio in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is alarming opposition MLAs who feel the province is failing to act.
For the third straight year, hospitals in and around Sydney, N.S., recorded the highest death rate in the country, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
According to CIHI, nearly 50 per cent more patients in CBRM died than expected compared to the national average.