It depends on the severity of their illness because I wouldn't want to hospitalize a patient with a mild eating disorder, nor would I want to keep a patient out of hospital who was very severely ill and medically unstable. So it does depend on the level of intervention, and it's important that we match the level of intervention to the severity of the illness.
One of the problems that's happened in Ottawa is that the specialized eating disorder program at CHEO became so overwhelmed by the number of referrals that we had to close and only treat those acutely medically ill patients who required hospitalization. This meant that patients with mild, moderate, or even moderately severe eating disorders in the Ottawa region for the last 20 months have had no specialized eating disorder care, which is atrocious.