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Here is the e-mail I sent to the care group in The Villages Medical:
"I worked in Emergency Rooms in Illinois as well as ER's in Washington DC hospitals and suburban hospitals. The Villages Hospital Emergency Room is a DISGRACE and totally inadequate for this population!
My 5 year experience with The Villages Hospital Emergency Room in a total of 3 visits was:
visit #1 a 7 hour wait time
visit #2 a 7 1/2 hour wait time
visit #3 after waiting 8 1/2 hours and never been seen I left (and this visit was due to a 4 auto crash on 441 in which I was the 3rd car that accident).
I trained in Radiology in Rockford, IL and worked the Emergency room there. At the time Rockford had the approximate population of 50,000. We had 3 hospitals at that time (each of them were approximately the size of our one hospital in The Villages) and all three Emergency rooms in Rockford were BUSY! WE ARE WOEFULLY SHORT OF STAFF AND OF EMERGENCY ROOMS in The Villages. This is such an under-served area I am surprised it has not made the national news. Perhaps that is where we need to go next with our very valid complaints because they are not address by those in charge here."
They sent me a form response to call them.