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Originally Posted by GatorFan
No it is not the folks in Tallahassee. My cousin is an Administrator of a hospital and the first thing he did when he took over the hospital was get the ER wait time to under 15 minutes. Blame the administration of the hospital.
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Might start with the folks that go there for non-emergencies.
True story:
Last March, while walking in to be with my husband in ICU, my daughter and I encountered a couple who wanted to know if one of us had a light. I told them that we didn't, but they could not smoke on the hospital property anyway. Her response:
"Oh, we know, but I have to go to the ER and know that it's going to be a long wait so we wanted to have one last cigarette first." Emergency??!! I think not. It was still daylight so plenty of time to go to Urgent Care. As for the money, they could do without their cigarettes, tattoos, and body piercings because I doubt that the last two are any more free than the cigarettes.
There was a lady in there early one night that had something (elbow, I think it was) that had been hurting for several days, so she finally decided that she might need to see a doctor. Emergency? No.
I have noticed that the hospital now has a shuttle that will take people from the front door of the hospital to the hospital's urgent care facility. Sounds pretty pro-active to me.