The second annual Maclean's ranking finds the best health services in prosperous suburbs
ROBERT MARSHALL What a difference a year makes. Last June, Maclean's broke new ground with the first-ever ranking of health services available to Canadians in major centres across the land. That became possible when the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the magazine's main partner in its periodic health reports, made a leap of its own. In a pilot project, the national health information agency broke out data on 16 urban centres from its national sources. That allowed those regions, home to almost 40 per cent of Canadians, to compare their performance in 13 specific areas with other regions' for the first time. For Maclean's, it was the raw data required to launch the ranking project. Bragging rights went to Edmonton, with an overall score of 89 per cent. The other 15 regions followed remarkably close behind, all within 10 percentage points, down to the vast, difficult-to-service Sudbury region of Northern Ontario, trailing at 79 per cent.
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