In my experience ERs throughout the nation are nearly all experiencing the same kinds of pressures that we experience in TV. I served as a director of a 235 bed critical care hospital in a small town (100,000 ) in Md for 17 years. We were constantly rebuilding, renovating, expanding that operation during that entire time and still were unable to satisfy the more than 70,000 people who arrived asking for care . Even with the enormous proliferation of urgent care centers throughout the country, the pressure on ERs has continued to grow. My family has had three evperiences with the TV ER in the last two years and our care (quality and wait) was no different than we had experi ernced at Johns Hopkins Hosp in Baltimore or several other MD facilities.
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