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Originally Posted by dillywho

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.

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.

I'm confused. What hospital was it that had a shuttle to its own urgent care facility? TVRH? If that's the case, why aren't they sending non emergencies over to there?