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Originally Posted by CFrance
The person had a pre-existing condition and severe hydration. Where else should he have gone? Apparently the EMTs thought the ER was the place to go. They need ER facilities expansion at that hospital.
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According to our neighbor who serves on the hospital board that is the reason they are building an addition to the hospital.
Triage must be very difficult to do. I am concerned with the person with severe hypertension, dangerously high, that was not seen immediately. I thought cardiovascular emergencies were one of the top emergencies.
The waiting a long time in an emergency room isn't anything new, and it isn't confined to The Villages. A long time ago our oldest daughter broke both of her arms falling from a cheerleader pyramid and had to wait to be seen for several hours because of a huge bunch of life threatening emergencies that came in.
Usually senior citizens get some kind of priority, but most of us here fall into that category.
I think with the completion of the new addition to the hospital, some of this will be helped. But we keep growing. And we are the group most seen by the medical profession...so it is a very big problem. Now people who previously did not have insurance will go to the emergency room too. And right they should, but it will add to the wait.